“A great war, more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it.” So begins Thucydides’ great history and the story of the Peloponnesian War, the conflict that took place in the latter part of the 5th century BCE and enveloped the entire Greek world for more than thirty years. Although the major grievances were between Athens and Sparta – the two most powerful Greek states throughout the period – the horror, scope, and complexity of the struggle eventually spread across the Mediterranea...