• Title: The History of the Peloponnesian War
• Author: Thucydides
• Genre/Subject: Classical history
• Publisher: Kindle
• Publication Date: Antiquity
• Start date: 3/27/2021
• Finish date: 4/8/2021

Review:

After Herodotus, the second great Classical work.

Unlike Herodotus, Thucydides does not admit of the intervention of Gods, so it is essentially the first science based history.

It was a tough read, it’s long and very dense. I needed my atlas of classical history to keep the numerous place names sorted as to location and why this or that town was strategically important.

That being said, the speeches and dialogues are wonderful and show the human motivations behind the conflict.

Thucydides showed empathy with the victims of the war, and he was a general in the war, which is unusual.