Thucydides: The Peloponnesian Wars

by Hugh R. Editor; Trevor-Roper

Thucydides wrote this marvelously vivd work as an eyewitness to the bloodiest civil war in hostory - the savage struggle between Athens and Sparta. Hopelessly laying waste each other's lands, involving all Hellenic states in a senseless bloodbath, the two great cities strove vainly for power and empire. After almost thirty years of internecine destruction, Greece lay prostrate. The war's only achievement was the total collapse of man's most glorious age - The Golden Age of Ancient Greece.

Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1963