Title: History of the Peloponnesian War
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.
Subjects: Greek Inscriptions, History, Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01353967, Greece, history, peloponnesian war, 431-404 b.c., Thucydides, Textbooks, Peloponnesische Oorlog, 18.43 ancient Greek literature, Greek (language), Peloponnesian war, Peloponnesian war (greece : 431-404 b.c.), Pa4452 .a2 1928, 938.05, Literary criticism, Ancient & classical, Sources, Funeral orations, Criticism and interpretation, Vredespaleis (Hague, Netherlands)