History of the Peloponnesian War

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History of the Peloponnesian War

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ISBN: 9780140440393
author: Thucydides
translator: Rex Warner
publishing house: Penguin Classics
publication date: 1972
language: English
binding: Paperback
price: USD 19.00
number of pages: 648

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Thucydides    translator: Rex Warner

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Written four hundred 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." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.

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