Epaminondas was a general and statesman who beat the Spartans and for a short period made Thebes the greatest power in Greece ...

Back in 411 BC, the Greek poet and playwright, Aristophanes, wrote Lysistrata, a comedy about a woman who rallies others in a unique plan to end the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta.

In 410 BC democracy was restored. The war continued to drag on indecisively for another three years, with each side capturing and recapturing strategic colonies and city-states.

The exact sequence of events in the winter of 412/411 BC and their correlation, as they are narrated by Thucydides, are unclear and have long been a matter of scholarly dispute. In this paper an ...

"Lysistrata," the third and concluding play of Aristophanes' "War and Peace" series, was first produced in 411 B.C. -- a pretty sad commentary on how long war has been a topic.