![]() This new edition combines a masterly translation with comprehensive supporting material.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Of the prose writers of Greece and Rome Thucydides has had more lasting influence on western thought than all but Plato and Aristotle. It was composed as a permanent legacy, not a showpiece for a single hearing.' So it has proved. Of his own work Thucydides wrote: 'I shall be content if is judged useful by those who will want to have a clear understanding of what happened - and, such is the human condition, will happen again. Thucydides himself was a participant in the war to his history he brings an awesome intellect, brilliant narrative, and penetrating analysis of the nature of power, as it affects both states and individuals. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides ( c. ![]() Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health. ![]() The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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