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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War

An Athenian general's careful account of the long war between Athens and Sparta, and of power without limits.

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5 of the 1990 set
Author
Thucydides (c. 460–c. 400 BC)
Work
History of the Peloponnesian War after 431 BC; unfinished

Ideas: War and its causes Power and rulers Telling the past

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