Dimensions
129 x 195 x 27mm
The epic struggle with Sparta is superbly recreated in these pages. With clinical precision, Thucydides describes the plague which ravaged Athens, the debasement of language during war, the fatal jealousies and power struggles which sapped Athenian strength and doomed her last great expedition to Sicily. Fictionalised speeches by statesmen and ambassadors dramatise the eternal conflicts between might and right, between imperial powers and subject peoples. No earlier writer had shown Thucydides' passionate concern to extract the truth through comparison and verification of sources. He has been universally acclaimed as the greatest and most exciting historian of antiquity.
The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, maps and extensive index.
A war which brought to an end a golden age of democracy.
