description: 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.
language: English
title: The History of the Peloponnesian War
titlecomplete: The History of the Peloponnesian War
characters: Nicias (Athens), Thucydides, Pericles, Alcibiades
genres: Greece, Politics, Philosophy, Ancient History, Military Fiction, Classics, War, Nonfiction, History, Ancient
ratings_count: 37238
places: Greece, Syracuse, Sicily
publisher: Indypublish.Com