Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War

Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

Offers a better way to read Thucydides through the explanation of grammar and a glimpse into the history of classical scholarship

Kagan, one of the foremost classics scholars, illuminates the historian Thucydides and his greatest work, "The Peloponnesian War," both by examining him in the