Im thinking of making a timeline or book on the Peloponnesian war, can i have some information on it. I know the basics?
Im thinking of making a timeline or book on the Peloponnesian war, can i have some information on it. I know the basics?
Im thinking of making a timeline or book on the Peloponnesian war, can i have some information on it. I know the basics?
Peloponnesian War:431-404 BC-(certain historians believe that it actually started 460 BC.)
Three parts:1)Archidamian War 431-421 BC
2) Peace of Nikias 421-415 BC
3) Sicilian Disaster/Deceleian War 415-404 BC
Sources:Thucidides "Peloponnesian War" (Penguin)
Text books:Bury & Meiggs:"Ancient History of Greece to 323 BC
Russel Meiggs :"The Athenian Empire"
You are not going to learn anything important from Internet if you are to start a Thread.you need a lot more detailed information which will necessitate the
reading of more material,and for that you might need to resort to a Library.
if you need further information please ask me.
do a google search. you'll find out a great deal more that way.
what you need to know:
after the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens competed for hegemony of Greece. It was a long and bloody process in which eventually Sparta won, but at a huge cost, and soon Sparta was in turn defeated by Thebes.
These yale lectures on youtube have a lot of information on the war.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7xOLKKcm2s
A good POD would be the failed Athenian invasion of Syracuse. That was the major turning point in it ruined Athens.
A good POD would be the failed Athenian invasion of Syracuse. That was the major turning point in it ruined Athens.
wasnt there an AH story about this?