{"id":104,"date":"2005-11-05T13:06:25","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T13:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/05\/a-war-like-no-other-how-the-athenians-and-spartans-fought-the-peloponnesian-war\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T19:16:42","slug":"a-war-like-no-other-how-the-athenians-and-spartans-fought-the-peloponnesian-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/11\/05\/a-war-like-no-other-how-the-athenians-and-spartans-fought-the-peloponnesian-war\/","title":{"rendered":"A War Like No Other : How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-104\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1400060958\/qid=1131224492\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/102-9495726-4240950?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\" target=\"NewWindow\">A War Like No Other : How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Victor Hanson<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hardcover: <\/strong>416 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Random House (October 4, 2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>1400060958<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I read this book on my most recent trip to Amsterdam, and right after finishing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=105\">book on the life of King David<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This book brings a lot of research together on the Peloponnesian War, and doesn&#8217;t follow a timeline style, instead consisting of chapters on topics of Greek warfare of the time.  There are a number of very interesting observations around the number of people that likely died in hoplite combat vs. all combat vs. naval combat.  But, after reading the book on David, I most liked the observation that this war helped move the Greeks from an agrarian society to one based on trade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-104\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 104);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-104\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-104\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: A War Like No Other : How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War Author: Victor Hanson Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Random House (October 4, 2005) ISBN: 1400060958 I read this book on my most recent trip to Amsterdam, and right after finishing a book on the life of King David. This book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}