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Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Thucydides
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Published
- 1972
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140440393
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Fiction, Philosophy
- Rating
- 3.87 / 5 (21,705 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- History of the Peloponnesian War (1998)
- The Peloponnesian war : the complete Hobbes translation (1989)
- Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War, IV, Books VII and VIII (Loeb Classical Library No. 169) (Volume IV) (Greek and English Edition) (1965)
- The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) (1972)
- Thucydides : history of the Peloponnesian war (1974)
- The History of the Peloponnesian War (Barnes & Noble Classics) (2006)
- The Peloponnesian War : a new translation, backgrounds and contexts, interpretations (1998)
- Le Storie. Vol. II [libri V-VIII] (1982)
- History of the Peloponnesian War (2002)
- Le Storie. Vol. I [libri I-IV] (1982)
- Thucydides. 3. : History of the Peloponnesian War. Books 5 and 6. ; with an English trans. by Charles Forster Smith (1921)
- Thucydides III: History of the Peloponnesian War III. Books 5-6 (1921)
- History of the Peloponnesian War (Great Minds) (1998)