The History of the Peloponnesian War - Softcover

Thucydides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195002180 ISBN 13: 9780195002188

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1960

Synopsis

Thucydides wrote the story of the first democracy in history, and of the fortunes and fall of its empire, but his pages contain the modern world-scene in miniature. The tale is told by a great political thinker, whose penetrating insight and dramatic power caused Macaulay to call him the 'greatest historian that ever lived.' His work, slightly abridged, is here presented in translation with an introduction and notes.

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About the Author:

Thucydides (between 460 and 455 BC-circa 400 BC) was an ancient Greek historian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1960
• ISBN 10: 0195002180
• ISBN 13: 9780195002188
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402
• Editor: Livingstone Sir R. W.