The History Of The Peloponnesian War - 9781534864993

Thucydides (460 -400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.

• | Author: Thucydides Thucydides, Richard Crawley
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jun 24, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1534864997
• | ISBN-13: 9781534864993