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Thucydides himself was a participant in the war; to his history he brings an awesome intellect, brilliant narrative, and penetrating analysis of the nature of power, as it affects both states and individuals.Of his own work Thucydides wrote: 'I shall be content if [my history] is judged useful by those who will want to have a clear understanding of what happened - and, such is the human condition, will happen again ... It was composed as a permanent legacy, not a showpiece for a single hearing.' So it has proved. Of the prose writers of Greece and Rome Thucydides has had more lasting influence on western thought than all but Plato and Aristotle. This new edition combines a masterly translation with comprehensive supporting material. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. 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He tells us about this, not  in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence of his history of  the war—that it befell him to be an exile for twenty years. He then  lived probably on his property in Thrace, but was able to observe both  sides in certain campaigns of the war, and returned to Athens after her  defeat in 404. He had been composing his famous history, with its hopes  and horrors, triumphs and disasters, in full detail from first-hand  knowledge, along with the accounts of others.  The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace after the  first; and Thucydides had not unified them into one account when death  came sometime before 396. His history of the first conflict, 431–421,  was nearly complete; Thucydides was still at work on this when the war  spread to Sicily and into a conflict (415–413) likewise complete in his  awful and brilliant record, though not fitted into the whole. His story  of the final conflict of 413–404 breaks off (in the middle of a  sentence) when dealing with the year 411. So his work was left  unfinished and as a whole unrevised. Yet in brilliance of description  and depth of insight this history has no superior.  The Loeb Classical Library edition of Thucydides is in four volumes.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292803346805,"sku":"9780674991873","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674991873_49d5f4f6-189a-442a-ac16-dc0c5e143370.jpg?v=1786015028"},{"product_id":"9780691190150","title":"How to Think about War – An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy","description":"An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides’s History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and warWhy do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? 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How to Think about War features speeches that have earned the History its celebrated status—all of those delivered before the Athenian Assembly, as well as Pericles’s funeral oration and the notoriously ruthless “Melian Dialogue.” Organized by key debates, these complex speeches reveal the recklessness, cruelty, and realpolitik of Athenian warfighting and imperialism.   The first English-language collection of speeches from Thucydides in nearly half a century, How to Think about War takes readers straight to the heart of this timeless thinker.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294585336181,"sku":"9780691190150","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691190150_75fa4059-d59a-41aa-9f55-419be1bfad31.jpg?v=1786015083"},{"product_id":"9780674991224","title":"History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume III – Books 5–6","description":"Classic political realism.   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