The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
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Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author’s ambitious claim that the work “was done to last forever.” The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.
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This book is a fictional account of the war between the Delian League and the Spartans and their allies. If Herodotus was the Father of Lies, Thucydides must be the arch-fiend himself. Pericles’ “beautiful” funereal oration — made up. The only good thing about this book is the touching of the Lesbians and their tragic compelled choice between the Athenians and the Spartans. Of course, the Athenians abuse these poor Lesbians.
Rating: 1 / 5
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
This was a very interesting and easy book to read concerning this ancient 30-year Greek civil war that was so devastating to the whole of Hellas. Too bad the author dies before being able to complete the work. Reading this made me think how US politicians and rhetoreticians pay lip service to Athenian democracy while in fact this democracy was very different from US democracy and was a democracy that only included Athenian male citizens while women were excluded. Athenian democracy also supported slavery and was abusive to its subject states. Reading this book one learns that the Athenians were the bad guys and that Pericles was a leader who looked out for his peoples interests while disregarding other peoples well being.
Rating: 5 / 5
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
This book illustarted how Greek people were disunited and enagged in war with one another. At the end of this book, author mentioned how Persian/Iranian were commenced to interfer in Greek politics.
Rating: 5 / 5
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
By fortune, for me, Thucydides came first in college…followed not long after by David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest… followed by Neil Sheehan’s A Bright and Shining Lie.
Like Gibbon, Toqueville and so many others, the story teaches.
Rating: 5 / 5
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
Before I am pilloried as a heathen and burned in effigy as a barbarian, let me begin by saying yes, I recognize the importance of this book - historical objectivity and attributing events to human causes are the foundations of the discipline of history, and we owe that to Thucydides (and, to a lesser extent, Herodotus.)
With that said, I was disappointed at how laborious I found this book. To its credit, it was exhaustive in its approach to the subject matter, beginning with the geographical layout of the Pelopnnesus and its subsequent political development in the distant past prior to the war. And the causes of the war were certainly discussed objectively. But the book was dry - really dry. The sort of thing that college students, in their worst nightmares, have of what a history class is like dry. With all due respect to Thucydides, it read like a monontone lecture.
Is there valuable information here? Absolutely. Is it a landmark piece of history? Without doubt. But we have (thankfully) come a long way from the monotonous drone in history writing since the 4th century BC. In other words, its important, but a very tough read.
Rating: 3 / 5
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition