GRST 205 Lecture 7: GRST Lecture 7 Notes

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 205
• Professor: Colin Ash

Document Summary

The peloponnesian war (431-404 bce) was an ancient greek war fought by athens and its empire against the peloponnesian league led by sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into these phases. The peloponnesian war reshaped the ancient greek world: athens never regained its prewar prominence and prosperity. His history of the peloponnesian war recounts the 5th century bce war between sparta and. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of scientific history because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work. In spite of his prominence as a historian, modern historians know relatively little about. The nearly fifty years of greek history that preceded the outbreak of the peloponnesian war had been marked by the development of athens as a major power in the mediterranean world.