num_pages: 648
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: History of the Peloponnesian War
titlecomplete: History of the Peloponnesian War
characters: Thucydides, Pericles, Alcibiades, Nicias (Athens)
genres: Classics, History, Philosophy, Ancient History, War, Ancient, Greece, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 37244
places: Syracuse, Sicily, Greece
publisher: Penguin Books