Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	December 14, 2008
ISBN13	9788562022098
Publishers	IAP
Pages	262
Dimensions	250 × 14 × 200 mm · 530 g
Language	English

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