History of the Peloponnesian War - The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides wrote the story of the first democracy in history, and of the fortunes and fall of its empire, but his pages contain the modern world-scene in miniature. The tale is told by a great political thinker, whose penetrating insight and dramatic power caused Macaulay to call him the< br> greatest historian that ever lived. His work, slightly abridged, is here presented in translation with an introduction and notes.

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• Authors: Thucydides ., Thucydides, Thucydides 431 Bc
• Assisted by: R. W. Livingstone (Editor), Sir Richard Livingstone (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.1968
• EAN: 9780195002188
• ISBN: 978-0-19-500218-8
• No. of pages: 402
• Series: Galaxy Books; Galaxy Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE