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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 BC) 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.
| ISBN | 0140440399 | | Pages | 656 | | ISBN13 | 9780140440393
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 446 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Language | English | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | London | | Publication date | 28 Feb 1974 | | Series title | Classics S. | | Translator | R. Warner | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Writer of introduction | Sir Moses I. Finley | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Library of Congress | DF229.T5J6 | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY | 938.05 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Alternative ISBN | 9781441709530 |
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