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The Peloponnesian War (Classics) Book
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Foyles
'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 HollandThe 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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TheBookPeople
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.
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BookDepository
History of the Peloponnesian War : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140440393 : 0140440399 : 28 Feb 1974 : Presents a contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta. This title compiles a factual record of this disastrous conflict.
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Blackwell
Written 400 years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work was done to last forever.
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Penguin
'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.
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Pickabook
Thucydides, R. Warner (Trans), Sir Moses I. Finley
- 0140440399
- 9780140440393
- Thucydides
- 31 December 2000
- Prentice Hall
- Paperback (Book)
- 648
- 1
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