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Thucydides

Posthumous or imagined likeness of Thucydides.
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The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

c. 431–411 BCE · Ancient · History

The History of the Peloponnesian War is Thucydides’ unfinished account of the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 411 BCE. Unlike Herodotus’ broad storytelling, Thucydides narrows his gaze to power, fear, interest, decision and the deterioration of civic language under pressure.

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