Thucydidis De bello peloponnesiaco libri octo.

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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.

subjects: 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)