The History of the Peloponnesian War (Classics)
October 30, 2019 - Comment
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Flawed package, but an invaluable guide to war, its causes, and its consequences For all the problems Thucydidesâs work poses for the contemporary reader â the dryness of the prose, the authorâs own admission that the speeches are unlikely to be accurate reporting, his inability to transcend the particular for the universal â it is beyond churlish to criticise the man who may be seen as the first real historian, the first to consider history as a product of human agency, not as something predetermined by the whims of the gods.By his own admission, Thucydidesâs…
lots and lots and lots of fascinating detail The next time I read this book – and it will have to be read again as there is a lot to absorb in one reading – I intend to set a room in my house aside and have a large map of the med to cover the floor. Then with the aid of lots of wooden model boats for the different triremes and blocks for the different armies I can move them around on a page by page basis (probably dressed appropriately in a horse haired helmet and metal greaves and pushing the markers with a wooden spear) and fully…
Five Stars Perfect, as described & delivered on timeTook me back to my A level!