The ancient Greek historian Thucydides called it "a war like no other" - arguably the greatest in the history of the world up to that time. The Peloponnesian War pitted Athens and her allies against a league of city-states headed by Sparta. Thucydides himself was an Athenian general in the fighting, sentenced to exile partway through the 27-year struggle, after losing a key battle to one of Sparta's leading commanders.
Kenneth W. Harl
Tulane University - Ph.D., Yale University
