The entire Greek world plunged into three decades of bloodshed in 431 B.
C., when the ongoing friction between Athens and Sparta exploded into war.
Thucydides\' chronicle of the disastrous 27-year conflict between the Greek city-states resonates with t.
Ten years into the struggle, the Athenian general Thucydides was dismissed for a military failure that led to a triumph for posterity: the former general retired to write an account of the war, resulting in one of the world\'s great History books.
The entire Greek world plunged into three decades of bloodshed in 431 B.
C., when the ongoing friction between Athens and Sparta exploded into war