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Thucydides
Presents a contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta. This title compiles a factual record of this disastrous conflict.
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Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War combines brilliant narrative and penetrating analysis; his writing has had more lasting influence on western thought than all but Plato and Aristotle. This masterly…
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Melinda M Snodgrass
Thudydides Trap: A point when one great power threatens to displace another, war is unavoidable....
Thracius "Tracy" Belmanor has struggled to do his patriotic duty in the wake of the…
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Thucydides, H L Havell
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
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Thucydides, Johanna Hanink
An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides’s History that takes listeners to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and war.
Jennifer T. Roberts
An introduction to the thought and background of the Greek historian Thucydides, this book examines his account of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the context both of…
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An Athenian general of the fifth century B.C. chronicles the disastrous 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta. Thucydides traces the conflict’s roots and provides detailed, knowledgeable analyses of battles and…
Mary Lefkowitz, James Romm
From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its…
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The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Thucydides: With Notes And Various Readings, An Analysis, And A Collation Of Other Editions With The Amended Text Of Bekker (1830) is a book written by the ancient Greek historian…
One of the greatest history books ever written now features a new introduction, which provides the first comprehensive overview of this seminal work for contemporary readers.
The new introduction is…
The classic account of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley. An Athenian general who served in the war, Thucydides relates the invasions, treacheries, plagues, amazing speeches, ambitions…
The classic account of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley. Himself an Athenian general who served in the war, Thucydides relates the invasions, treacheries, plagues, amazing speeches…
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
An ancient conflict brought vividly to life by its greatest historian For those familiar with contemporary works of military history there may be something disconcerting about a book written over…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Thucydides’ classic chronicle of the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 BCE persists as one of the most brilliant histories of all time, marked by extraordinary writing…
Thucydides’s classic chronicle of the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 B.C. persists as one of the most brilliant histories of all time, marked by extraordinary writing…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
The History of the Peloponnesian War is an important work of historical literature that chronicles the events of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, which took place in the…
Thucydides’s account of the war between the Athenians and the Spartans uses personal experience and information from contacts on both sides of the epic conflict. His work is shaped by…