The Peloponnesian War #peloponnesianwar #ancientgreece #history

Athens and Sparta. Two cities that had stood side by side against Persia — and then spent twenty-seven years destroying each other. This is the full story of the Peloponnesian War: how the Delian League became an empire, how a plague took a quarter of Athens, how a young aristocrat named Alcibiades changed sides three times, how Athens sent the greatest armada Greece had ever seen to Sicily and lost every ship, and how the war ended on an open beach at Aegospotami — with the Long Walls of Athens coming down to the music of flutes. Told from Thucydides and Xenophon, with animated maps, painted illustrations and portraits of the men who fought it. Chapters 0:00 Cold open — Athens opens its gates 1:20 Two Greeces — Sparta and Athens 3:05 The road to war 5:15 The Archidamian War — Pericles, the plague, Pylos 9:20 A hollow peace — Nicias, Alcibiades, Melos 11:07 The Sicilian Expedition 14:17 The fall of Athens — Persia, Cyzicus, Aegospotami 18:18 Epilogue — the end of the Greek world