History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
Translated by Richard Crawley
- Length
- 93 mornings, about 2,200 words a reading
About the book
The History of the Peloponnesian War is the Athenian Thucydides’s account of the war between Athens and Sparta that began in 431 BC. Thucydides lived through the whole war and commanded for Athens; after his command at Amphipolis he spent twenty years in exile, which he says let him see events from both sides. He tells the war year by year, in summers and winters, aiming at the exact truth. The war lasted twenty-seven years, but his narrative breaks off in its twenty-first year, in 411 BC. This is Richard Crawley’s translation, completed in 1874.
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