Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics)
- Authors
- Thucydides
- Publisher
- Delphi Classics
- Tags
- history , classics , war , politics
- Date
- 2013-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 3.64 MB
- Lang
- en
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.