Download The Modern Scholar: Wars That Made the Western World: The Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War AudioBook Free
This program addresses three wars fought in antiquity, each of which had - even 2,000 years and even more later - a decisive impact in shaping our communal sense of who we have been, not only in European countries, but throughout the Western social diaspora, in the Americas, in Oceania, and also to some extent, at least, in Asia and Africa as well - wherever, in short, Western values keep. The three wars to be looked into here are (1) the Persian Wars, between a coalition of Greek city-states or "poleis", most notably Athens and Sparta, and the Achaemenid Persian empire, the central and decisive part of which occurred between 490 and 479 B.C.E.; (2) the later Peloponnesian War between Athens and her allies and Sparta and hers, 431-404 B.C.E.; and finally (3) the three Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage, which stretched, on and off, for well greater than a hundred years, from 264 to 146 B.C.E.
