The History of the Peloponnesian War

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1954683 pagesD. Appleton & co.

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens an Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim that his writing was designed to last forever. Thucydides himself (c-460-400 B.C.) 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. A translation of Thucydides' history of the wars between Athens and Sparta with introduction, notes, bibliography, and maps.

Avg. reading time: 12h 56m
Prose complexity: 10/10

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Thucydides

Thucydides was an ancient Greek historian, most famous for The History of the Peloponnesian War. This work offers a detailed, analytical account of the conflict between Athens and Sparta, a foundational text in historical writing.

Warner, Rex

Rex Warner was a British writer, translator, and classicist. He is best known for his translation of Thucydides's The History of the Peloponnesian War, a standard text for many readers. Warner also wrote novels and poetry, often drawing on classical themes.

M. I. Finley

Sir Moses I. Finley CBE, FBA (May 20, 1912–June 23, 1986) was an American and English classical scholar. His most notable work is The Ancient Economy (1973), where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in antiquity rather than rational economic motivations. He was born in 1912 in New York City as Moses Israel Finkelstein to Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzenellenbogen; died in 1986 as a British subject. He was educated at Syracuse University and Columbia University. A...

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