Description
A sweeping account of the Peloponnesian War, the nearly three-decade conflict that pitted democratic Athens against militaristic Sparta and reshaped the ancient Greek world. Drawing on vivid historical detail, the book explores how the war was fought across land and sea, in besieged cities and devastated countryside, while examining the strategies, political ambitions, and human costs that drove both sides. It also reveals the conflict’s wider significance, from shifting alliances and revolutionary violence to the enduring consequences of total war. Accessible, analytical, and richly imagined, this work brings one of antiquity’s defining struggles to life.
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paperback
Random House
Published Jan 1, 2005
397 pages
ISBN: 9781400060955
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First Published
2005
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson.