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Lecturer, Kenneth W. Harl

The Peloponnesian War pitted Athens and its allies against a league of city-states headed by Sparta. The ancient Greek historian Thucydides captured this drama with matchless insight in his classic eyewitness account of what was arguably the greatest war in the history of the world up to that time. These 36 half-hour lectures draw on Thucydides' classic account as well as other ancient sources to give you a full picture of the Greek world in uneasy peace and then all-out war in the late 5th century B.C. Professor Kenneth Harl of Tulane University plunges you into the thick of politics, military strategy, economics, and technology. Professor Harl's engaging teaching style makes the ancient Greek world come alive as you explore the war debates at Athens and Sparta, the devastating plagues that swept through Athens, the Revolt of Mytilene, the Battle of Pylos, the disastrous Athenian and Spartan expedition to Sicily against Spartan allies. Ironically, the Peloponnesian War was fought against the backdrop of Greece's Golden Age, epitomized by Athens and its astonishing innovations in government, architecture, oratory, philosophy, and the dramatic arts. One of the most remarkable aspects of this era is that culture flourished side-by-side with the politics of war. You'll experience the thick of action and consider lively scholarly debates that continue to this day. All Lectures: Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War The Greek Way of War Sparta - Perceptions and Prejudices Sparta and Her Allies The Athenian Democracy Athens and the Navy Victory over Persia, 490 - 479 B.C. Athens or Sparta - A Question of Leadership Cimonian Imperialism Sparta after the Persian Wars The First Peloponnesian War The Thirty Years' Peace Triumph of the Radical Democracy From Delian League to Athenian Empire Economy and Society of Imperial Athens Athens, School of Greece Crisis in Corcyra, 435 - 432 B.C. Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War Strategies and Stalemate, 431 - 429 B.C. Athenian Victory in Northwest Greece Imperial Crisis - The Chalcidice and Mytilene Plague, Fiscal Crisis, and War Demagogues and Stasis Pylos, 425 B.C. - A Test of Leadership New Leaders and New Strategies The Peace of Nicias Collapse of the Peace of Nicias From Mantinea to Sicily, 418 - 415 B.C. Sparta, Athens, and the Western Greeks The Athenian Expedition to Sicily Alcibiades and Sparta, 414 - 412 B.C. Conspiracy and Revolution, 411 B.C. Alcibiades and Athens, 411 - 406 B.C. The Defeat of Athens, 406 - 404 B.C. Sparta's Bitter Victory Lessons of the Peloponnesian War

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