History of the Peloponnesian War when the island nation emerged

when the island nation emerged from 200 years of self-imposed isolation

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Josef Hofmann (1876–1957) was a master of piano technique and an artist who had few equals at the keyboard

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History of the Peloponnesian War when the island nation emergedThe entire Greek world plunged into three decades of bloodshed in 431 B. C., when the ongoing friction between Athens and Sparta exploded into war. Ten years into the struggle, the Athenian general Thucydides was dismissed for a military failure that led to a triumph for posterity: the former general retired to write an account of the war, resulting in one of the world's great history books. Thucydides' chronicle of the disastrous 27 year conflict