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The Peloponnesian War started when Sparta the leader of the Peloponnesian league and the largest land power in the region started to become concerned with the rise of Athens powers. Athens was a power in their own right; they were the largest sea power and was the leader of the Delian league. Neither Sparta nor Athens could afford to accept supremacy from the other country. Power can be a dangerous thing, those who have it don’t like letting it go, and those who don’t have it will do anything…

CONSCLUSION A skillful warrior can achieve his own invulnerability, but he can never bring about the enemy’s vulnerability. (Sun Tzu) This campaign exposed numerous operational, tactical and strategic mistakes that the Athenians made; which ultimately lead to them losing this war. One of the main reasons the Athenians failed, was because they did not have the right resources nor executed the right strategy; this was mainly due to lack of planning and a lack of willingness to adjust. Maybe if…

The Spartan army was much stronger comparing to Athens army. By 500 BC, Sparta was recognized by other Greeks as the most powerful city-state. The Spartan phalanx is an unstoppable military force, almost like a human tank a wall of Spartan soldiers. Considering the fact that almost all of the other Greeks thought that Sparta was the most powerful city-state, shows that the Spartan army must've been incredibly stronger to gain so much power and it being known by other Greeks. The Spartan phalanx…

It was 404 B.C, and the Peloponnesian War, the war between the two city-states, Athens and Sparta, had been going on for about three decades. Finally, with one last push, Athens finally surrendered, leaving Sparta to be the strongest city-state ever to be seen in the course of history. Sparta became invincible, far superior to Athens because women had more freedom and education than other city-states, they had two governments in different times, and they lived a military life. First and…

In the 5th century, a Greek city state named Sparta came and rivaled Athens. Sparta rivaled Athens because they have strength, discipline and obedience with their army, which sometimes is not a very good thing. (Background Essay). Many Greek settlements had to fight to survive, which Sparta did. I believe that the weakness outweighed the strengths. How did Sparta do this, how did they manage fighting for rivalry? One reason how they did this was with a strong, obedient army. Sparta had a…

During the time of the Peloponnesian War, there was much turmoil in the city states of Greece. The two Greek main powers of the time, Athens and Sparta, were caught in a power struggle to be the main polis in control of the region. The turmoil sprung from the mutual distrust between the army centered Spartans and the naval centered Athenians: neither one wanted to lose to the other (Cartwright). Both powers were reaching to expand their empires in order to have a greater chance at defeating one…

The Mytilenian Debate was a key part of Thucydides’ On Justice, Power and Human Nature. The Mytilenian debate focuses on a conflict about the rebellion of Mytilene. The Rebellion that began in the summer of 428 was between the Athens and a town on the island of Lesbos; Mytilene, that was located off the coast of Asia minor. The rebellion also grew to include most of the islands of Lesbos. The rebellion was caused by the Mytilenians believing that the Athens would eventually take over their…

If Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Diogenes of Sinope all have come into our time zone especially in America and saw the lifestyle we are living, they would all have different opinions on the way things turned out. Some things are good and some are bad, but for sure they would all be shocked of the modern society just like anyone would be to see a new world in front of them. It’s like us going to a new planet or waking up a few thousand years from now and having the same mentality. I will start…

Sparta, The Superior Civilization Sparta and Athens where both great civilizations, but only one was the greatest of all ancient greece. Sparta was a civilization that innovated and capitalized on its strong values. Athens was a pale imitation to what Sparta had achieved. Sparta had the superior civilization compared to Athens because it had a strong military, far less patriarchal, and had a healthier society. Sparta had the strongest and most well trained army of ancient greece. Boys were…

This expedition seemed doomed because they started with three different strategies, and three different generals. The Athenians named three generals to lead the expedition. They named Alcibiades, Nicias and Lamchus as their leaders. Nicias, who had tried to convince the people of Attica not to go to Sicily, suggested that they sail towards Sicily and force a settlement between Segesta and Selinus; then after that return home. Lamachus, suggested that they could attack their real enemy,…