History of the Peloponnesian War
Author: THUCYDIDES
ISBN: 9780140440393
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 31 Dec 1963
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback / softback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict.
ISBN: 9780140440393
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 31 Dec 1963
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback / softback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict.
