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...of Athens at the close of the Golden Age and the end of the Peloponnesian War with Sparta. ...f Socrates. The novel follows their relationship through the Peloponnesian War, the surrender of Athens, the establishment of the Thirty Tyrants rule over ...

...Last of the Wine]]'' (1956) — set in Athens during the Peloponnesian War; the narrator is a student of Socrates ...

...ydides reports,<ref name="Thucydides 5.43">Thucydides, "The History of the Peloponnesian Wars", 5.43.</ref> that Alcibiades was offended that the Spartans had negot ..."it was a grandiose scheme for an Athenian general at the head of a mainly Peloponnesian army to march through the Peloponnese cocking a snook at Sparta when her re ...

...reek mythology)|Europa]], [[Medea]] and [[Helen]].<ref>''The Peloponnesian War'' Lawrence A.Tritle, Greenwood Publishing Group 2004, page 147-48</ref><ref ...ntimate knowledge of some events in the first years of the [[Peloponnesian War]] (VI,91; VII,133,233; IX,73) indicate that he might have returned to Athen ...

...e Spartans.<ref name="Th6.74">Thucydides, [[s:History of the Peloponnesian War/Book 6#6:74|6.74]]</ref> By his own admission, he is very handsome. *Thucydides, ''History of the Peloponnesian War'', trans. Rex Warner. Penguin, 1954. ...

...ely, as the universal East believes they can: these Simiads are at chronic war with the Ants, alluding to some obscure myth which gave rise to the gold-di ...lf after his death when flattery would be tongue-tied, as, "one devoted to war and pilgrimage, whose bounty embraced the folk at large." Sa'adi (ob. A.D. ...