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With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide tom holland the long lifeanddeath struggle between athens and sparta plunged the ancient greek world into decades of war. Either as an advanced very undergraduate greek course or as part of an introductory graduate one, rustens edition is a valuable adjunct to the loeb or the oct in conjunction with the crawley translation or. Greek text with english translation includes index vol. The history of the peloponnesian war by thucydides, part of the internet classics archive.
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