The Peloponnesian War
regard to the parties involved. The foremost volume in Thucydides 'History of the Peloponnesian War covers a summary of Greece's early history, a programmatic historiographical note, and an explanation for why the War was waged. With the exception of some brief excursuses (particularly 6.54-58 on Tyrant Slayers), its remaining volumes (2-8) concentrate strictly on the War and nothing else. Though Thucydides' book focuses on the war's military facets, the events are employed as a channel to broach many other War-related subjects. A number of passages in the book describe, in particular, the war's culturally and socially degenerative impacts on mankind.… Continue Reading...
