# The Peloponnesian War

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- Book: [The Peloponnesian War](https://www.bookquiver.com/thucydides/the-peloponnesian-war) ([The Peloponnesian War.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thucydides/the-peloponnesian-war.md))
- Authors: [Thucydides](https://www.bookquiver.com/thucydides)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 978-01-9282-191-1
- Pages: 784
- Published: 2009-01-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Thucydides` history of the Peloponnesian War combines brilliant narrative and penetrating analysis; his writing has had more lasting influence on western thought than all but Plato and Aristotle. This masterly new translation is the most comprehensive single-volume edition currently available.`The greatest historian that ever lived` Such was Macaulay`s verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Thucydides himself was a participant in the war; to his history he brings an awesome intellect, brilliant narrative, and penetrating analysis of the nature of power, as it affects both states and individuals. Of his own work Thucydides wrote: `I shall be content if [my history] is judged useful by those who will want to have a clear understanding of what happened - and, such is the human condition, will happen again ... It was composed as a permanent legacy, not a showpiece for a single hearing.` So it has proved. Of the prose writers of Greece and Rome Thucydides has had more lasting influence on western thought than all but Plato and Aristotle. This new edition combines a masterly translation with comprehensive supporting material.