Aura and overview: "Come and take them."
Institutions: What made the Spartans so different?
The early days: Before the Persian wars
The Ionian revolt to Marathon, 490 BCE
Their finest hour: Artemisium and Thermopylae, 490-480 BCE
The triumph of the Greeks : Salamis and Plataea, 480-479 BCE
Earthquake, revolt, stormclouds gathering: The Peloponnesian War to the peace of Nicias
Sparta triumphant: From the peace of Nicias to Aegospotami
Triumph and nemesis: From the destruction of the Long Walls at Athens to Leuctra and beyond.
