Written 400 years before the birth of Christ, The History of the Peloponnesian War is a detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta. Thucydides himself 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.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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