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This stimulating new study provides a narrative of the monumental conflict of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, and examines the realities of the war and its effects on the average Athenian. * A penetrating new study of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta by an established scholar * Offers an original interpretation of how and why the war began * Weaves in the contemporary evidence of Aristophanes in order to give readers a new sense of how the war affected the individual * Discusses the practicalities and realities of the war * Examines the blossoming of culture and intellectual achievement in Athens despite the war * Challenges the approach of Thucydides in his account of the war