092 - The End of an Era (Part II)

In this episode, we discuss the years 430 and 429 BC of the Peloponnesian War, including a failed Spartan invasion of Zakynthos and Acarnania, Phormio's naval victories at Rhium and Naupactus, an Athenian debacle at Spartolos, the end of the siege of Potidaea, the death of Pericles and Phormio, and a Thracian invasion of Macedonia

Primary Sources: 
Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesian War (Book 2)
Plutarch's Life of Pericles
Diodorus Siculus' The Library of History (Book 12)

Supplementary Resources (Videos, Photos, Other Podcasts)

Video/The Peloponnesian War (Khan Academy)



Video/The Peloponnesian War (Epimetheus)

Video/Who Fought the Peloponnesian War? (Ancient History Guy)

Video/How did the Peloponnesian War Happen? - Athens Faces Sparta (Knowledgia)

Map/The Athenian Empire

Map/The Peloponnesian War

  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Video/Part 2 of the Peloponnesian War (History Den)

Photo/Diagram of the Athenian naval strategy at the Battle of Rhium

Recommended Podcast Episodes:
***Antiquitas - Pericles
***Antiquity in Question - The Peloponnesian War, the End of an Independent Greece?
***History in the Making - The Olympian has Fallen

***History of Modern Greece - Peloponnesian War: Sparta Rises

***History of the World - Ancient Greece: Peloponnesian War, Part Two

***Plutarch - Pericles – Surrounded with Glory