History of the Peloponnesian War, The
by Thucydides 431 BC
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Author: Thucydides 431 BCEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-09
ISBN: 1414239300
Number of pages: 452
Publisher: IndyPublish
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Thucydides is an unforgiving historian, who seems to hold all of Athens in equal contempt, with the exception of Perecles and, strangely, the turncoat Alcibiades. He also seems to have the foresight of Prometheus himself and whinges constantly about how different things would have been if only the ecclesia had listened to him. He is not as aimiable or as diversionary as Herodotus, whose Histories directly precede the time that Thucydides addresses, and is probably the better introduction to the period. However Thucydides approaches the subject in a more rigourous and scientific manner, and his history benefits for that. It is an excellent account of a fascinating period of history, its only a pity that he never got round to finish it.
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