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The history of the Peleponnesian war
- 412 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 1545
- 110 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
An account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian general who served in the war. It is widely considered a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History was divided into eight books by editors of later antiquity.
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