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Blurb: “TRANSLATED BY REX WARNER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY M. I. FINLEY
'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to' last for ever.'
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 B.C.) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy. and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict.
The cover shows a detail from a Greek vase in the Louvre (Snark Archives)”