Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, "History of the Peloponnesian War" has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed w

Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, "History of the Peloponnesian War" has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed w

A consideration of authors and historians from fifth century BC onwards who shed light on the Greek tradition of historical writing.

Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

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