The Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World

The Causes of the Peloponnesian War (1x26)

Air date: May 01, 2009

Thucydides gave two reasons for the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War: Sparta's fear of the growth of Athenian power, and a sequence of actions that provoked the Spartans to declare war. You also hear the theory that Pericles, the leader of Athens, deliberately engineered the war.