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History of the Peloponnesian War

โœ Scribed by Thucydides


Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
548 KB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis


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.


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