THUCYDIDES, HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR (1982, Paperback, Penguin Classics)

Description: Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian war Translated by Rex Warner with an Introduction and Notes by M.I. Finley (1982, Paperback, Penguin Classics) This paperback book is in good used condition, the covers have heavy shelfware and some creasing, but the book is solid, intact, with no markings, names, highlighting, etc. Please see the photos for the condition as the photos are of the actual book that you will receive. Thank you! OverviewWritten 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 and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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