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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Free Press, 1998
Wow, amazing history!
Don't let the fact this book was written over 2,000 years ago sway you from reading it! I'll admit I was hesitant about reading Thucydides because I'm not a big fan of non-fiction or a serious military history buff, and more specifically, was never that interested in ...
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A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Victor Hanson
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
A good introduction to war in Ancient Greece
Victor Davis Hanson is my favorite military author. His "The Soul of Battle" covers three generals who led free men and were victorious. This prompted me to track down the biography "Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945." George Patton was a flawed, but ...
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The Isle of Stone: A Novel of Ancient Sparta
Nicholas Nicastro
Signet, 2005
Spartans Come To Life
I was looking for a historically accurate story about Spartan warriors' fabled training methods and their legendary battlefield heroics. Nicastro delivered both of those things in this compelling novel that was as entertaining as it was informative.
This ...
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Tides of War
Steven Pressfield
Bantam, 2001
Mr Pressfield did his homework
"Tides of War" by Steven Pressfield, ©2000
This historical novel is very good. Mr Pressfield did his homework to write this book. I am not schooled in the intricacies of ancient history, but you got the feeling that this was an accurate book. The speeches he ...
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The Last of the Wine
Mary Renault
Vintage, 2001
The End of the City...
I've loved this book for half my life, and I've assigned it to students in Western Civ. classes in universities. Be very clear, now: this is not a novel about the battles of the great war between Athens and Sparta. It's not intended to be like Stephen Pressfield's ...
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
Thucydides
Penguin Classics, 1954
Translations of Thucydides
There are four main translations of Thucydides available for the English reader:
Thomas Hobbes' 1628 version. Although made over 300 years ago this translation is still considered a classic by many in the English-speaking world. Hobbes is best known for writing ...
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The Peloponnesian War
Donald Kagan
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004
A wonderful history, plus lessons for our own time
Donald Kagan has taken 2500-year-old accounts written by Thucydides and others and produced a book that succeeds on two levels. First, it provides an excellent if slightly dry history of the war that led to the collapse of the Athenian empire. We learned a lot about ...
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On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Hackett Publishing Company, 1993
A Great Distillation of Thucydides' Genius
I can't think of another abridgment of a classic more after my own heart. I am a passionate believer in reading all of Thucydides, but this book is still the ideal way to get to know what is great about the historian. (And, as our democracy is at war & struggles with ...
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The Landmark Thucydides
Free Press, 2008
The Landmark Thucydides by Robert Srassler
You should buy the hardcover book and not the paperback edition of this book. The paperback edition falls apart when you read it. This translation of Thucydides's history of the Peloponnesian War is outstanding. The text has numerous maps that help the reader locate ...
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The Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Hackett Publishing Company, 1998
Get the Real Story
No book has kept me up at night or occupied my thoughts in the past decade more than Thucydides. The story told here is stunningly and disturbingly relevant for any American. Sparta vs Athens seems an allegory for the conflict between traditional America, of our ...
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Lysistrata (Signet Classics)
Aristophanes
Signet Classics, 2001
Excellent
This was exactly what I was hoping for, a simple copy of Lysistrata's text. No extra frills, no bells and whistles. Just perfect.
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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (Cornell Paperbacks)
Donald Kagan
Cornell University Press, 2006
A tour de force
It is difficult for me to describe the genius that lies behind Kagan's magisterial four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. Kagan's command of his subject matter is breath taking. But the reason that you want this to be THE book you read about the Peloponnesian ...
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Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa
Marshall Sahlins
University Of Chicago Press, 2004
Interesting but heavy on jargon
Marshall Sahlins uses two seemingly unrelated episodes in history to question the narrative form of historiography with which we all grew up. He compares the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Greece with the nineteenth century conflict between Rewa and Bau, two ...
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A History of My Times (Penguin Classics)
Xenophon
Penguin Classics, 1979
The Vagaries of History
The title refers to the complete randomness of the document survival process. We know that only a small fraction of the works of Aristophanes, Euripides, Plato, Livy (the historian), Aristotle and other "greats" survived the ages. The Gospel of Mark, which both Luke ...
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The Peloponnesian War: A New Translation, Backgrounds, Interpretations (Norton Critical Editions)
Thucydides, Walter Blanco, ...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1998
Greatest Of All Greek Historians
The greatest of all Greek historians was the Athenian general Thucydides (455-400 B.C.E.). Thucydides' classic work, "History Of The Peloponnesian War", provides us with the historical framework for 5th century Greece, a golden age of intellectual achievement and ...
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