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The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece [Audiobook]
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The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B07ZZH1K1V | 2019 | 13 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 689 MB
Author: Jennifer T. Roberts
Narrator: Anne Flosnik
In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece. Whole cities were exterminated, their men killed, their women and children enslaved. While the war is commonly believed to have ended with the capture of the Athenian navy in 405 and the subsequent starvation of Athens, fighting in Greece would continue for several decades. The war did not truly end until, in 371, Thebes' crack infantry resoundingly defeated Sparta at Leuctra.