The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [email protected]) (Loeb Classical Library) (The Peloponnesian War)

by William Smith and Thucydides

M. I. Finley (Introduction), Rex Warner (Translator), and M Finley (Introduction)

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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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  • ISBN10 0140440399
  • ISBN13 9780140440393
  • Publish Date 30 September 1954 (first published 31 January 1919)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 8 February 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics