Название: The Peloponnesian War (Oxford World's Classics)
Автор: Thucydides, P. J. Rhodes
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 784
Размер: 3,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
"The greatest historian that ever lived." Such was Macaulay's assessment of Thucydides (c. 460 400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta that lasted for twenty seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. A participant in the war himself, Thucydides brings to his history an awesome intellect, brilliant narrative, and penetrating analysis of the nature of power, as it affects both states and individuals.