The Peloponnesian War - PART I: The Gathering Storm
History with Cy
English - March 06, 2022 04:00 - 45 minutes - 32 MBCourses Education Society & Culture Places & Travel history ancient history medieval history world history country history ancient mesopotamia ancient greece ancient persia medieval europe ancient anatolia Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This is the first episode of the podcast series on the Peloponnesian War. How did it start? What does Thucydides, the war's great historian, tell us about the reasons and motivations of Athens, Sparta, Corinth and the different parties involved? Could the conflict have been prevented? We'll take a look at these questions and more as we go through the story of the greatest internal conflict of ancient Greek history, the Peloponnesian War!