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📘 The history of the Peleponnesian war by Thucydides

Thucydides, an Athenian general, chronicles the Peloponnesian War (431‑404 B.C.) between the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta and the Delian League headed by Athens. His work is one of the earliest scholarly histories and is considered a classic of the Western literary canon. The text has been divided into eight books by later editors and is available in an English translation by Richard Crawley from MIT Classics.

First publish date: 1840

Genre: History/Ancient History

Authors: Thucydides

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