Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: The Peloponnesian War
This resource provides a history of the Peloponnesian War, the cause, and the battles that ensued.
Boise State University
European History: The Peloponnesian War
PowerPoint style site traces the beginnings of the Peloponnesian War, the Delian League, and the Archidamian War. Includes references and further reading.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: The History of the Peloponnesian War
Complete text of "The History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides. Available for download or for reading on the internet.
Yale University
Open Yale Courses: Introduction to Ancient Greek History
Access any of the twenty-four lectures in a university-level course in ancient Greek history up to the time of Alexander. Lectures available in audio, video, or text format. With coverage of Bronze Age Greece, the Persian Wars, the rise...
Curated OER
Etc: Greece in the Peloponnesian War, 431 404 Bc
A map of Greece and Asia Minor during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), color-coded to show the territories of Athens, Sparta, and their allies.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Pericles
Plutarch's famous account on the life of Pericles translated by the English poet John Dryden. Provides rich details on such events as the Peloponnesian war and more.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Ancient History Sourcebook: Thucydides
This site from the Fordham University provides an extensive biography of Thucydides and his writing of history. It details his life as a statesman, traveller and writer. He was schooled in rhetoric and philosophy. His intention in...
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: Classical Greece, 500 323 b.c.
Read about the Persian invasion of Greece, the Age of Pericles, the Peloponnesian War, and the culture of Classical Greece.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Acharnians
This anti-war play, first produced in January, 426 B.C. by Aristophanes, is presented here. Footnotes aid in understanding terms and names. Multiple digital formats of the full text are available.
Penn Museum
Penn Museum: Ancient Greek World Men's Life: History of Warfare
This resource provides a look at the warring tactics of the ancient Greeks and the Persian War, and their impact on the daily life of men. Includes photographs of Greek depictions of war and links to information about Greek chariots,...
Other
Foundation of the Hellenic World: Greek History: The History of Greece
Covers the different periods of Greece's history from 3200 BC, with the Cycladic Civilization, up to the latter half of the twentieth century.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Greco Roman
Instead of rule by a single person, Athens and Rome developed governments with widespread participation by male elites, which lasted about 170 years in Athens and about 480 years in Rome. This article discusses the rise of the Greek and...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Ancient History Sourcebook: The Delian League
This site from the Fordham University provides extensive discussion on the first and second Delian Leagues, the origin and history, the problems that arose, how the league was governed, and the destruction of the league.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Agesilaus by Plutarch
A translation of Plutarch by John Dryden. Site contains a biography of Agesilaus, a famous Spartan king.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Lysander by Plutarch
MIT's Internet Classics Archive offers a biography of Lysander, great Spartan naval commander and statesman, by Plutarch.
Other
Bernard Suzanne: Sicily
A description of Sicily, its history, and links to other towns and cities connected to Sicily. Click for a map.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Archarnians" by Aristophanes
"The Archarnians" is the first play in a series of comedies by Aristophanes. It is an appeal for the end of the Peloponnesian War that contains fierce criticism of the War party. Included with the full text is an introduction and list of...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Profile Bust of Thucydides
Thucydides was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" due...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pylos, 425 Bc
A map of Pylos on the Bay of Navarino, Messenia, Greece, site of the great naval battle between Athenian and Spartan fleets during the Peloponnesian War.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Map of the Hellespont, 405 Bc
A map of the Hellespont (Dardanelles) between the Aegean Sea and Propontis (Bosporus), during the Peloponnesian War (405 BC), showing several important sites such as Troy (Ilium) and Abydos, where Xerxes I built two bridges to allow his...
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Greece After the Battle of Mantineia, 418 Bc
A map of the Greek territories after the Battle of Mantinea (418 BC) during the Peloponnesian War.
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Eastern Part of Hellas and Peloponnesus, 444 Bc
A map of Hellas and the eastern portion of Peloponnesus in 444 BC at the end of the first Peloponnesian War, and at a time when conservative and democratic factions in Athens were struggling for control.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Plan of Syracuse, 415 413 b.c.
A plan of the Greek colony of Syracuse during the years 415 to 413 BC, at the siege of Syracuse in the Peloponnesian War. The map shows Athenian naval camp (a), the Athenian fort (b), the height at the rear of the Athenian line (c), the...
Curated OER
Etc: Syracuse at the Time of the Siege, 415 413 Bc
A map of the Greek city-state of Syracuse at the time of the siege by Athens during the Peloponnesian War (415-413 B.