In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded, and probably ...

The Peloponnesian War in which Athens fought Sparta began in 431 B.C. At the outset, the Athenian statesman Pericles ordered all inhabitants of the Attica region to take refuge within the capital ...

Initially unable to cope with Pericles’ strategy, they were able to cobble together ... Thucydides on Strategy is an important read for students of the Peloponnesian war, and perhaps even more so for ...

In 431 BCE, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War ... democracy was seen as a good thing, and Pericles’ speech became its most powerful celebration. In the First World War, for example ...

Arriving in 464 BC, he became a friend of Pericles and outraged religious ... were very idealistic. During the Peloponnesian War, he defied new laws restricting what could be taught and as a ...

The pinnacle of its glory was in the mid-fifth century BC, between the Persian wars and the Peloponnesian war, when it was ruled by Pericles.