Description: Narrates and analyses an oft-neglected war between Sparta and an unlikely alliance of Athens, Persia, Thebes, Corinth and Argos.
Brief description: Jeffrey A. Smith has an undergraduate degree in religion, with a focus on the ancient world, from Dartmouth College (USA) and a master's degree in history from the University of Birmingham (UK). He has taught humanities and ancient history at The Stony Brook School, a boarding school on the North Shore of Long Island, for the past decade.