The agoge was at its height during the Classical Period and was praised as the ideal form...
Sparta
He could not keep his word as he kept changing sides and lived in exile. Alcibiades, the...
The Spartan Eurypontid king Agesilaus led two expeditions against Thebes but achieved little. Introduction and Background The...
The Spartan myth of stranger-kings of divine descent was opposed to the Athenian ideology of autochthony. Introduction...
Ancient Sparta could be considered the most fully-realized form of gerontocracy that any state has ever implemented....
Spartan women were free to pursue an education, own land, initiate divorce, and go where they pleased....
At school, we have all studied the amazing history of the two most important city-states in Greece,...
The apogee of one’s training was to comprehend the laws and to be a vital member of...
During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his allegiance on several occasions. Introduction Alcibiades Cleiniou...
The losses that Athens suffered in the Peloponnesian War show the sad consequences of the repeated unwillingness...
Neither the course nor the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War was foreseeable at its outset. Of the...
The Lacedaemonians abandoned the grand strategy they had articulated early on. Introduction In ancient Lacedaemon, as in...
The alliance’s name derives from the island of Delos, where the League originally housed its treasury. By...
The League gave Sparta protection from uprisings within its own borders and eventually secured its dominance in...
Thucydides placed Brasidas’s Homeric ending in a singularly admirable light. By Nathan A. JenningsNATO Planner, Afghanistan In...
Epaminondas transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a preeminent...