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Thucydides
-460–-400
1 non-fiction
Thucydides was an Athenian historian whose History of the Peloponnesian War remains central to Greek political and military history.
Thucydides served as an Athenian general and wrote a severe analytical account of the war between Athens and Sparta. His work examines strategy, plague, civil strife, rhetoric, imperial overreach and the pressures that war places on democratic decision-making.
He belongs in Classical for pages on the Peloponnesian War, Athenian democracy, Spartan power and political realism. His account is particularly valuable for books concerned with siege, naval power, civic fear and the breakdown of moral language during war.
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