Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War (Galaxy Books)

by Sir Richard Livingstone (Author)

• New

  Abridged
  1968

  $137.85

  Important sections on the funeral oration, the account of the plague of Athens and the obituary of Pericles are stressed in a Greek text supplemented by an English introduction and commentary.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $8.30

  Thucydides claimed that his account of the devastating war between the Athenians and the Spartans was a possession for all time . An Athenian general, he was exiled for a military failure and drew for his writing on his personal experience and information from an extensive network of contacts on both sides to the epic conflict. His work is shaped by his judgements about the exercise of power in a democracy which ruled an empire and by his analysis of the impact of war on the social fabric. Thucydides's technique draws on the culture of his time, including sophist rhetoric, the drama of Greek tragedy and the diagnostic methods of the Hippocratic medical writers. The issues Thucydides addressed are as germane today as they were in the 5th-century BC.