Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War

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Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian WarPenguin Classics The long life and death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the ancient Greek world into decades of war. Thucydides was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war, and in this detailed, first hand contemporary account he writes as both a soldier and a historian. He applies a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling a factual record of a ruinous conflict that would

The edition includes an introduction

έπειτα από μια μεγάλη απώλεια

He suppresses revolts in Northern Gaul and crosses the Rhine to deal with marauding Germans

αλλά η μοίρα είχε άλλα γραμμένα

Plutarch distilled what he learned about wise leadership in a handful of essays

Doreen Innes’ fresh rendering of the work is based on the earlier Loeb translation by W

and the balance of power is about to break

It includes both English-Latin and Latin-English exercises

tyrant of Syracuse

killed out of greed by the Thracian king who was supposed to protect him

who fed his men their memory-stealing drug

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian