Sparta won the Peloponnesian War, the 27-year-long conflict Athenian expansion brought on between 431-404 BCE, and the only event that finally dragged the Spartans into prolonged military action.

Athens and Sparta were both powerful Greek city-states but their values, systems, and ambitions clashed violently. This video ...

Twenty-five hundred years ago the Spartans were the indisputable military power in Greece. No city had warriors as fierce and ...

An earthquake in Sparta in the year 464 BCE started a series of events which ultimately led to the Peloponnesian War.

In 378 B.C., Athens formed the second naval confederacy, a group that challenged Spartan control of the seas. Ultimately, however Sparta's downfall came, not from Athens, but from a city named Thebes.

Something paradoxical happened at the height of hostilities between Athens and Sparta, which culminated in the devastating Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.). Some Athenians began to idolize rather ...

To survive in a post-Oct. 7 world in which the Islamic Republic of Iran wages a seven-front war against it, contends Shavit, Israel must combine the virtues of Athens and Sparta.

The response requires a continuing combination of Athens and Sparta. Israel and the Jewish people must continue to excel at science, technology, education, morality, and democracy.