Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction

by Jennifer T. Roberts

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring

In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brough Athens to its knees in 404. The Athenian aristocrat Thucydides, suspecting the magnitude of the conflict that was unfolding before his eyes, at once undertook to record its history,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192855824
• ISBN13: 9780192855824
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages