'Oo Won the Bloody War, Anyway?

Victor Davis Hanson has a new book about the Peloponessian War, in which he appears to run counter to some of the prevailing scholarship concerning what many consider to be the great folly of ancient Hellas. NRO has an excerpt from the tenth chapter:

Other observers, like the historians Theopompus and Cratippus, felt that the Peloponnesian War did not really end until 394, a thirty-eight-year war in all. In this view, hostilities actually ceased when the Spartan fleet was defeated by Athens at the sea battle at Cnidus (394). Then its expeditionary army was forced home to Sparta from Ionia to meet a new rising threat from Thebes, while the Long Walls of Athens were rebuilt, thereby ending once and for all the saga of the old fifth-century bipolar world of Athenian and Spartan hegemony.

Now this is the kind of revisionism a man can get behind. I'm putting the book on my wish list.