Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics)

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
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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.