A New History of the Peloponnesian War

This stimulating new study provides a narrative of the monumental conflict of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, and examines the realities of the war and its effects on the average Athenian.

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  A penetrating new study of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta by an established scholar

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  Offers an original interpretation of how and why the war began

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  Weaves in the contemporary evidence of Aristophanes in order to give readers a new sense of how the war affected the individual

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  Discusses the practicalities and realities of the war

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  Examines the blossoming of culture and intellectual achievement in Athens despite the war

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  Challenges the approach of Thucydides in his account of the war

Keywords: Sparta, Athens, Thucydides, Ancient Greece, Greece, Greek History, Ancient History