La guerre d'Archidamos. Nouvelle histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse II. Divers During the 19th century

During the 19th century

entre Ancien Régime et Révolution

commissioned by Louis XVI

seeking solutions to the technical challenge in nature

Beyond his technical virtuosity

La guerre d'Archidamos. Nouvelle histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse II. Divers During the 19th centuryIt is Thucydides who constitutes the events known as the "Peloponnesian War" as a single whole, a single war. As Donald Kagan has shown in the first volume of his tetralogy, he does so at the cost of an etiological reduction that allows him to transform his study of the causes of the confrontation between Athens and Sparta into a unifying teleology. Nevertheless, four major phases are traditionally distinguished in the whole thus delineated by