This stimulating new study provides a narrative of the monumental conflict of the Peloponnesian W...
Historians are used to studying the origins of war. The rebuilding in the aftermath of war is a s...
'The greatest historian that ever lived'Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC)...
'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be...
Written by Thucydides around 400 AD, The History of the Peloponnesian War is a meticulous account...
Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth ce...
Historians are used to studying the origins of war. The rebuilding in the aftermath of war is a s...
'The greatest historian that ever lived'Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC)...