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Hardcover History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume IV: Books 7-8 [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)] Book

ISBN: 0674991877

ISBN13: 9780674991873

History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume IV: Books 7-8 [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

Classic political realism.

Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that he described so graphically. Later, as general in 423 he failed to save Amphipolis from the enemy and was disgraced. He tells us about this, not in volumes of self-justification, but...

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