The Peloponnesian War
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
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At the heart of the ancient world's most devastating conflict stands Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War — a monumental work of historical inquiry that chronicles the brutal twenty-seven-year struggle between Athens and Sparta, two civilisations whose rivalry would reshape the entire Greek world. Written by an Athenian general who lived through the war himself, this masterwork presents the clash of democracy and oligarchy, ambition and hubris, power and its inevitable overreach, with a forensic clarity that no subsequent historian has surpassed. Through vivid battle narratives, diplomatic exchanges, and the immortal Funeral Oration of Pericles, Thucydides constructs a portrait of war that is simultaneously a timeless meditation on human nature and political power. Translated with muscular precision by Rex Warner for Penguin Classics, this edition brings the original Greek text to vivid life for the modern reader, preserving both the intellectual rigour and the dramatic tension of the source material. Thucydides pioneered the very concept of evidence-based historical writing, rejecting myth and sentiment in favour of eyewitness testimony and rigorous analysis — a method so radical that it remains the bedrock of historical scholarship to this day. His unflinching account of the Sicilian Expedition, one of antiquity's greatest military catastrophes, reads with the propulsive dread of a modern tragedy. For anyone who seeks to understand not merely what happened in ancient Greece, but why nations rise, overreach, and fall, The Peloponnesian War remains as urgent and unsettling as the day it was written.
Author: Thucydides
Format: Paperback
Genre: Ancient history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of the ancient world's most devastating conflict stands Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War — a monumental work of historical inquiry that chronicles the brutal twenty-seven-year struggle between Athens and Sparta, two civilisations whose rivalry would reshape the entire Greek world. Written by an Athenian general who lived through the war himself, this masterwork presents the clash of democracy and oligarchy, ambition and hubris, power and its inevitable overreach, with a forensic clarity that no subsequent historian has surpassed. Through vivid battle narratives, diplomatic exchanges, and the immortal Funeral Oration of Pericles, Thucydides constructs a portrait of war that is simultaneously a timeless meditation on human nature and political power. Translated with muscular precision by Rex Warner for Penguin Classics, this edition brings the original Greek text to vivid life for the modern reader, preserving both the intellectual rigour and the dramatic tension of the source material. Thucydides pioneered the very concept of evidence-based historical writing, rejecting myth and sentiment in favour of eyewitness testimony and rigorous analysis — a method so radical that it remains the bedrock of historical scholarship to this day. His unflinching account of the Sicilian Expedition, one of antiquity's greatest military catastrophes, reads with the propulsive dread of a modern tragedy. For anyone who seeks to understand not merely what happened in ancient Greece, but why nations rise, overreach, and fall, The Peloponnesian War remains as urgent and unsettling as the day it was written.