The History Of The Peloponnesian War eBook

The History of the Peloponnesian Waris a historical account of thePeloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led bySparta) and the Delian League (led byAthens). It was written byThucydides, an Athenian historian who also served as an Athenian general during the war. His account of the conflict is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History is divided into eight books.

Thucydides  (c. 460 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.

Translated byRichard Crawley.