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.
Genres
- Greek Inscriptions
- History
- Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01353967
- Greece, history, peloponnesian war, 431-404 b.c.
- Thucydides
- Textbooks
- Peloponnesische Oorlog
- 18.43 ancient Greek literature
- Greek (language)
- Peloponnesian war
- Peloponnesian war (greece : 431-404 b.c.)
- Pa4452 .a2 1928
- 938.05
- Literary criticism
- Ancient & classical
- Sources
- Funeral orations
- Criticism and interpretation
- Vredespaleis (Hague, Netherlands)
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