History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides, and Finley, M. (Introduction by), and Warner, Rex (Translated by)
Language: English
Published by Penguin Classics, London, 1974
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- Title
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- Author
- Thucydides, and Finley, M. (Introduction by), and Warner, Rex (Translated by)
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics, London
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- Good.
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0140440399
- ISBN 13
- 9780140440393
'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom Holland
The long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the ancient Greek world into decades of war. Thucydides was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war, and in this detailed, first-hand contemporary account he writes as both a soldier and a historian. He applies a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling a factual record of a ruinous conflict that would eventually destroy the Athenian empire.
Translated by Rex Warner with an introduction and notes by M. I. Finley
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About the Author
THUCYDIDES was born probably about 460BC. He took a small part in the Peloponnesian War when it broke out in 431BC. 'The Peoloponnesian War' is the only surviving source for much of the period that he describes. Some of the chronological inconsistencies have been the cause of controversy among scholars for centuries.
Rex Warner 1905-1986 was a classical scholar of Wadham College, Oxford. M. I. Finley was a lecturer in Classics and then Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge. He died in 1986
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