History of the Peloponnesian war / Thucydides ; translated by Rex Warner ; with and introduction and notes by M.I. Finley Thucydides

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Thucydides
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Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C; Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.; Greece
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The greatest historian that ever lived'Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Thucydides himself was a participant in the war; to his history he brings an awesome intellect, brilliant narrative, and penetrating analysis of the natureof power, as it affects both states and individuals.Of his own work Thucydides wro.
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