Get Thucydides Book PNG. Thucydides was an athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war, and in in any list of the great books of western civilization, the peloponnesian war stands near the top. He saw the rise of athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of pericles.
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Thucydides's most popular book is history of the peloponnesian war. A comprehensive guide to the peloponnesian war (1998). 400 b.c.e.), greek θουκυδίδης, thoukudídēs) was an ancient greek historian, and the author of the history of the peloponnesian war, which recounts the events of the first 21 years of the 28 year war between sparta and athens in the fifth century b.c.e. A comprehensive guide to the peloponnesian.
