The Landmark Thucydides
Subtitle: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Contributors: Robert B. Strassler (Editor); Victor Davis Hanson (Introduction); Richard Crawley (Translator)
Publisher: Free Press
Published: September 10, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9780684827902
Subjects: World history: BCE to c 500 CE; Military - Other; History - Military / War; History; History: World; Ancient - Greece; History / Military / General; Military - General
First sentence: Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war, and more worthy of relation than any that had precede it.