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The history of the peloponnesian war by thucydides. Thucydides, as he himself tells us, was an athenian and lived during the period of the peloponnesian war, though, from the unfinished state of his work, he probably died before it came to an end. Strassler, richard crawley translation, annotated, indexed and illustrated, a touchstone book, new york, ny, 1996 isbn 0684828154. Thucydides sounds surprisingly modern for a writer who lived 2,400 years ago. Thucydides, an athenian, wrote the history of the war is the first pronouncement of the peloponnesian war 1.
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Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between athens and sparta a possession for all time, and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the western historical tradition. Written four hundred years before the birth of christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long lifeanddeath struggle between athens and sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its authors ambitious claim. A comprehensive guide to the peloponnesian war by thucydides and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The landmark thucydides includes a vast array of superbly designed and presented maps, brief informative appendices by outstanding classical scholars on subjects of special relevance to the text, explanatory marginal notes on each page, an index of unprecedented subtlety, and. The landmark thucydides is the first book in robert strasslers excellent series of annotated translations of ancient history. This book is a concise, readable introduction to the greek author thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Chapter ix fourth and fifth years of the war revolt of mitylene the next summer, just as the corn was getting ripe, the peloponnesians and their allies invaded attica under the command of archidamus, son of zeuxidamus, king of the lacedaemonians, and sat down and ravaged the land.
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