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 ...

85. Kagan’s views on Pericles and his strategy have not changed since he wrote his four-volume series on the Peloponnesian War (1969–87). 29. John Hale calls the Peace of Nicias a triumph for Athens ...

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: The Complete Hobbes Translation ... 77. 14. F ollowing Plutarch (Pericles, 29.3), Donald Kagan suggests that the clash of the Athenian and Corinthian navies was a ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

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 ...

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 ...

Her influence was said to be discernible, by both her detractors and those more open, on the Funeral Oration that Pericles is ...

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.

In the fifth century BC, Greek general Pericles set off on a naval mission during the Peloponnesian War. The sun was eclipsed, and his fleet of 150 ships was cast into darkness. While the event ...

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 ...