The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

⏱ 7 minWisdom classic

The long, ruinous war between Athens and Sparta, Pericles's funeral oration, the plague, the cold logic of the Melian Dialogue, and the disaster in Sicily. Thucydides's founding work of history.

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