History of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War. / Translated by Rex Warner, with an introd. and notes by M. I. Finley. - [Rev. ed. - London : Penguin Books , [1972] - 648 p. : maps. ; 19 cm. - The Penguin classics .
Bibliography: p. [621]-623.
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 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 conempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict.
9780140440393
73174843
Greece---History---Peloponnesian war, 431-404 B.C.
DF229.T5 / J6 1972
888 THU
History of the Peloponnesian War. / Translated by Rex Warner, with an introd. and notes by M. I. Finley. - [Rev. ed. - London : Penguin Books , [1972] - 648 p. : maps. ; 19 cm. - The Penguin classics .
Bibliography: p. [621]-623.
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 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 conempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict.
9780140440393
73174843
Greece---History---Peloponnesian war, 431-404 B.C.
DF229.T5 / J6 1972
888 THU
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