The Peloponnesian War

In the 5th century BC, for three long decades, Ancient Greece was engulfed in a conflict no less dramatic and destructive than the world wars of the 20th century - the Peloponnesian War. The renowned American historian and classicist, one of the world's most respected specialists on Ancient Greece, Donald Kagan, recounts this bloody confrontation between the Athenians and Spartans. "The Peloponnesian War" is a new study of a turning point in the history of Western civilization, an authoritative historical work written, however, for a broad audience, vividly and engagingly. Before us is a detailed description of a long-lost world, the rise and fall of a great empire, and a chronicle of the Dark Ages, the lessons of which still resonate with us today.