The Peloponnesian War 0142004375, 9780142004371

For three decades in the fifth century B.C. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was as dramatic, divisiv

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The Peloponnesian War
0142004375, 9780142004371

It is a testament to the fascination of the subject that even today the events of the Peloponnesian War are studied for

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'The greatest historian that ever lived' Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and hi

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The advances in Xenophontic studies of the last generation have still not resulted in a definitive literary treatment of

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The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation o

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'The greatest historian that ever lived' Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and hi

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The book you are about to read is concerned with one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of ancient Greece,

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The advances in Xenophontic studies of the last generation have still not resulted in a definitive literary treatment of

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A comparison of the cultural and political/institutional dimensions of war's impact on Greece during the Peloponnes

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