| Author: | Thucydides | ISBN: | 9780141909394 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd | Publication: | February 28, 1974 |
| Imprint: | Penguin | Language: | English |
| Author: | Thucydides |
| ISBN: | 9780141909394 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publication: | February 28, 1974 |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Language: | English |
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) 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.
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) 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.
