Was Athens an imperialistic state, deserving all the reputation for exploitation that adjective can imply, or was the Athenian alliance, even at its most unequal, still characterized by a convergence of interests?The Power of Money explores monetary and metrological policy at At…
Dans la culture occidentale, Périclès a le rare privilège de donner son nom à un « Siècle », incarnant l'apogée politique et culturel du monde grec. Pour autant, faut-il croire l'historien Thucydide lorsqu'il soutient, à propos d'Athènes : « C'était, de nom, une démocratie, mais…
In a continuation of his multivolume series on ancient Sparta, Paul Rahe narrates the second stage in the six-decades-long, epic struggle between Sparta and Athens that first erupted some seventeen years after their joint victory in the Persian Wars. Rahe explores how and why op…
The latest volume in Paul Rahe's expansive history of Sparta's response to the challenges posed to its grand strategy.
