Just a quick note to commend VDH’s excerpt/article today on what the end of the Peloponnesian War meant for Greece. It is a tragedy that there is no extant historian that chronicled the early 4th century BC the way Herodotus and Thucydides did the early and late 5th century so very well. As VDH says, the end of the war was a temporary disruption for Athens. Before too long Thrasybulus and Conon had re-established Athens as a major power where some of the greatest names of history flourished: Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes. Classical democracy didn’t end in 404, but got caught up in the whirlwind of Alexander and his early death almost a century later. Athenian resiliency should be an encouragement to us all.