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The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

A plague so devastating it destroyed belief in the gods; prisoners of war worked to death in quarries; statesmen debating military action with chilling pragmatism… The horrors, dilemmas and costs of war have never been examined more urgently or more rigorously than by the Athenian general Thucydides, who recorded the seismic conflict between democratic Athens and authoritarian Sparta that engulfed the Greek world for a generation from 431 BC. In language of unorthodox beauty, Thucydides reveals how the same patriotic pride and self-belief that had repulsed the Persians years before brought Athens to the brink of annihilation. The History of the Peloponnesian War – one of the ‘most heart-rending and yet coldly analytical accounts of calamity ever written’ – speaks with stark immediacy to future generations of their most fundamental challenges and concerns.

Translation by Rex Warner, introduction, appendices, notes and bibliography by M.I. Finlay, preface by Theodore K. Rabb, and maps by Reginald Piggott.

Part of the series: ‘The Great Historians of Ancient Rome and Greece’

Features;

• Folio Society Second Printing No. 1293
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2007
• Dark Brown Buckram Hardback, 602 pp
• The plates show ancient Greek carvings and artefacts plus maps.
• Size 255 x 175mm, 1.9kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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