History of the Peloponnesian War (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

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Author: Thucydides

ISBN-10: 1593080913

ISBN-13: 9781593080914

Category: Ancient Fiction & Literature Classics

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A monumental work unsurpassed for its brilliant description, accuracy, and penetrating insights, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War is a spectacular eyewitness report of the war between Greece’s two most powerful city-states, Athens and Sparta, as it unfolded during the fifth century B.C.The first recorded political and moral analysis of a nation’s war policies, the History is a tragic story of virtue, ambition, and failed deterrence. All aspects of the conflict—