Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised ..., Wellington in Wellington, Wellington for sale

Translated by Rex Warner with an Introduction and Notes by M. I. Finley `My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.'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. 656 pages
Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
Author
Thucydides
Title
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
Publisher name
Penguin Classics 1954 Paperback
Shipping time
3 - 7 days
Publication year
1954
Vendor name
Book Haven
Vendor rating
Key words
Classics, Non-fiction, War
Topic
History, Ancient, Generalhistory, Ancient, Greecehistory, Europe, Greecehistory, Military, Generalhistory, Military, Other
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