TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moritz Mücke
PY  - 2014
CY  - München, Germany
PB  - GRIN Verlag
SN  - 9783656863489
TI  - The Peloponnesian War. Spartan Goals and Policy after the Peace of Nicias
UR  - https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/286181
N2  - After the Archidamian War, the Peace of Nicias provided much-needed breathing space for a weakened and disgraced Sparta and a war-weary as well as plague-ridden Athens. However, in the Peloponnesus the absence of effective statesmanship and political competence made the period following the making of the Peace one of confusion and ill-channeled ambition. While Athens sought to undo the damage done by Brasidas in Thrace, Argos mounted a challenge to Lacedaemonian hegemony in the Peleponneus. Nevertheless Sparta, through innovation, resilience, and warfare successfully pursued a policy of restoration and reconsolidation in the Peloponnesus and thus emerged after the Peace in a formidable position to once again take up arms against the Athenians in the last decade of the Peloponnesian War.
KW  - Peloponnesian War, Peloponnesischer Krieg, Athens, Athen, Sparta, Nicias, Peace of Nicias, Thucydides, Thukydides, Strategy, War, Ioanian War, Ionischer Krieg, Archideman War, Archidemischer Krieg, Peloponnese, Peloponnesus, Argos
LA  - English
ER  -