Thucydides Volume Ii: History Of The Peloponnesian War Books Iii - Iv Βιβλία Ανθρωπιστικές Και Κοινωνικές Επιστήμες Αρχαία Ελληνική Γραμματεία

Thucydides Of Athens One The Greatest Historians Was Born About 471 Bce He Saw Rise To Greatness Under Inspired Leadership Pericles In 430 Second Year Peloponnesian War Caught And Survived Horrible Plague Which Described So Graphically Later As General 423 Failed Save Amphipolis From Enemy Disgraced Tells This Not Volumes Self-Justification But Sentence His History War—That It Befell Him Be An Exile For Twenty Years Then Lived Probably On Property Thrace Able Observe Both Sides Certain Campaigns Returned After Her Defeat 404 Had Been Composing Famous With Its Hopes Horrors Triumphs Disasters Full Detail First-Hand Knowledge Own Others Really Three Conflicts Uncertain Peace First Unified Them Into Account When Death Came Sometime Before 396 Conflict 431–421 Nearly Complete Still At Work Spread Sicily A (415–413) Likewise Awful Brilliant Record Though Fitted Whole Story Final 413–404 Breaks Off (In Middle Sentence) Dealing 411 Left Unfinished Unrevised Yet Brilliance Description Depth Insight Has No Superior