Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century B.C. is largely dependent on the work of the historian Th

Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefini

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