by Thucydides (Author), Thucydides (Author), M. I. Finley (Introduction), Rex Warner (Translator)
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.
Format: paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published:
ISBN 10: 0140440399
ISBN 13: 9780140440393