![]() Athens was also a democracy, anxious to export her political system and way of life throughout the Greek world, if necessary by force. At the outset of the war, Athens was the richest city in the world and, within Greece, the sole superpower, with an omnipotent navy. ![]() Its interest for Hanson is in comparing Athens to the United States. This Greek civil war, between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies, lasted 27 years, from 431 to 404 B.C., and ended with the capitulation of Athens and its occupation by Sparta. ![]() "Perhaps never," he insists, "has the Peloponnesian War been more relevant to Americans than to us of the present age." WHY should a distinguished classical scholar like Victor Davis Hanson provide us with yet another book about the Peloponnesian War? He is in no doubt: he is writing a tract for the times. ![]()
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