The Spartan Brasidas aggravated revolt in this region and attacked the tactically significant Athenian colony of Amphipolis. During the Archidamian War there were five invasions, only hampered by Athenian cavalry who kept the light-armed away from the city itself. Le caractère inédit de la Guerre du Pélopponèse. The Athenians also built a fortress at Pylos, where they could receive runaway slaves and helots. Here is an achievement that not only honors the criteria of dispassion and of unstinting scruple which mark the best of modern historicism but honors its readers. Definitive and superb scholarship. This war started in 431 and ended in 421 with something that came close to an Athenian victory and a Spartan defeat. However, the war started in 431 and ended in 421 of which resulting an Athenian victory and a Spartan defeat. Please try again. In the Greek balance of power, the Archidamian War had to face severe obstacles. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Athens had to make a treaty with Corcyra starting to surround Potidaea in 433 intimidating to reduce the town of Corinth which until then was the third in power town of the Greek territory. The Archidamian War did not start without serious disturbances in the Greek balance of power. Kagan writes with scholarly analysis and authority. Cattle, for example, could be kept on the isle of Euboea. But perhaps the most valuable achievement of the book is its carefully reasoned demolition of Thucydides's view―warmly embraced by too many scholars―that Pericles's war strategy was justifiable. On to vol three, Meant more for a scholar than a casual reader, Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2016. So long the “Long Walls” attached the city to its port Piraeus, so long Athens would rule the waves and so long Athens was liberated to strike against the coastal allies of Sparta from the sea, it might create great stress within the Spartan alliance. Kept me interested cover to cover. Sphacteria (left), seen from the northeast, and the Pylos peninsula (right). The Athenian commander Thucydides, who was really very late to protect this town, had to be exiled and became the historian of this war. Indeed, persecution, oppression and repression cannot suppress the uprising of a nation. Only possible criticism was number of typos and the quality of the maps on the kindle, not very clear. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism (Books), © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The Athenian statesman Cleon was capable of tripling the compliment that the Athenians achieved, allowing the Athenian commanders for undertaking more bold actions. That is if you overlook all those Greek names ! The Archidamian War is the name generally given to the first half of the twenty-seven year contest between Athens and Sparta. Unable to add item to List. Yet he makes it into a wonderfully engaging story, how Athens and Sparta raged and tore at each other competing for supremacy in the Aegean. Athens had survived and won the Archidamian War. Please try your request again later. It was the first part of the Peloponnesian War (431-404), the enormous clash between Athens and Sparta, which is named after the Spartan king Archidamus II. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. To sum up, it has to be noted with paramount importance that Athens survived and became victorious in the Archidamian War. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Going on alongside this road, the Spartans proceeded Thessaly and Macedonia and had started to attack Athenian belongings in the northern Aegean. Learn More in these related Britannica articles: The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (A New History of the Peloponnesian War) (VOLUME 3), The Fall of the Athenian Empire (New History of the Peloponnesian War) (Volume 4), The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (A New History of the Peloponnesian War) (VOLUME 1), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. However, Athenian diplomatic mistakes, Spartan intransigence, and a catastrophic Athenian attempt to conquer the island of Sicily were enough to change the balance of power, so that Sparta got a second chance: the Decelean or Ionian War. This second volume of a four-volume set on the Peloponnesian War can be read either as part of the overall history of the war or as a stand-alone history of the 10 years from 431 to 421 BC, conventionally known as the Archidamian War. In 425, Demosthenes and Cleon attacked 292 Spartan soldiers on the island Sphacteria. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Having this been expired while Cleon, the Athenian war leader and the general of Sparta Vrasidas were killed in an action at the time of an Athenian endeavour to recover Amphipolis, however, both sides opted for peace: this is the famous Peace of Nicias which had already been satirized by the comedian Aristophanes before its signing. Peace was possible, they said, when Athens would revoke an economical decree against Megara, a Spartan ally. To read Kagan's 'History of the Peloponnesian War' at the present hour is to be almost unbearably tested. 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