few decades later, the rivalry between Athens and Sparta ended when Macedonia became the most powerful entity in Greece and Philip II of Macedon unified all of the Greek world except Sparta, which was later subjugated by Philip's son Alexander in 331 BC. A symbolic peace treaty was signed by the mayors of modern Athens and Sparta 2,500 years after the war ended, on March 12, 1996. Citations General and cited references Classical authors Aristophanes, Lysistrata. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica. Herodotus, Histories. Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Moralia. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon, Hellenica. Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Pericles, Alcibiades, Lysander). Modern authors Bagnall, Nigel. The Peloponnesian War: Athens, Sparta, And The Struggle For Greece. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006 (hardcover, ). Cawkwell, George. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. London: Routledge, 1997 (hardcover, ; paperback, ). Hanson, Victor Davis. A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. New York: Random House, 2005 (hardcover, ); New York: Random House, 2006 (paperback, ). Heftner, Herbert. Der oligarchische Umsturz des Jahres 411 v. Chr. und die Herrschaft der Vierhundert in Athen: Quellenkritische und historische Untersuchungen. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001 (). Hutchinson, Godfrey. Attrition: Aspects of Command in the Peloponnesian War. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Tempus Publishing, 2006 (hardcover, ). Kagan, Donald: The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1969 (hardcover, ); 1989 (paperback, ). The Archidamian War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974 (hardcover, ); 1990 (paperback, ). The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981 (hardcover, ); 1991 (paperback, ). The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987 (hardcover, ); 1991 (paperback, ). The Peloponnesian War. New York: Viking, 2003 (hardcover, ); New York: Penguin, 2004 (paperback, ); a one-volume version of his earlier tetralogy. Kallet, Lisa. Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides: The Sicilian Expedition and its Aftermath. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001 (hardcover, ). Kirshner, Jonathan. 2018. "Handle Him with Care: The Importance of Getting Thucydides Right." Security Studies. Krentz, Peter. The Thirty at Athens. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982 (hardcover, ). G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, London, Duckworth, 1972. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, edited by Robert B. Strassler. New York: The Free Press, 1996 (hardcover, ); 1998 (paperback, ). Roberts, Jennifer