{"product_id":"the-history-of-the-peloponnesian-war-isbn-9780140440393","title":"The History of the Peloponnesian War","description":"Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work \"was done to last forever.\" The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ci\u003eTranslated by Rex Warner with an Introduction and Notes by M. I. Finley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Dispute over Epidamnus\u003cbr\u003eThe Dispute over Corcyra\u003cbr\u003eThe Dispute over Potidaea\u003cbr\u003eThe Debate at Sparta and Declaration of War\u003cbr\u003eThe Pentecontaetia\u003cbr\u003eThe Allied Congress at Sparta\u003cbr\u003eThe Stories of Pausanias and Themistocles\u003cbr\u003eThe Spartan Ultimatum and Pericles' Reply\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOutbreak of War\u003cbr\u003eThe First Year of the War\u003cbr\u003ePericles' Funeral Oration\u003cbr\u003eThe Plague\u003cbr\u003eThe Policy of Pericles\u003cbr\u003eThe Fall of Potidaea\u003cbr\u003eThe Siege of Plataea\u003cbr\u003eVictories of Phormio\u003cbr\u003eThrace and Macedonia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevolt of Mytilene\u003cbr\u003eThe Mytilenian Debate\u003cbr\u003eThe End of Plataea\u003cbr\u003eCivil War in Corcyra\u003cbr\u003eOperations in Sicily and Greece\u003cbr\u003eEnd of Sixth Year of War\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook IV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAthenian Success at Pylos\u003cbr\u003eFinal Victory at Pylos\u003cbr\u003eFurther Athenian Successes\u003cbr\u003ePeace in Sicily\u003cbr\u003eFighting at Megara\u003cbr\u003eBrasidas in Thrace\u003cbr\u003eAthenian Defeat at Delium\u003cbr\u003eBrasidas Captures Amphipolis\u003cbr\u003eArmistice between Athens and Sparta\u003cbr\u003eEnd of Ninth Year of War\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook V\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBattle of Amphipolis\u003cbr\u003ePeace of Nicias\u003cbr\u003eNegotiations with Argos\u003cbr\u003eAlliance between Athens and Argos\u003cbr\u003eCampaigns in the Peloponnese\u003cbr\u003eBattle of Mantinea\u003cbr\u003eThe Melian Dialogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook VI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSicilian Antiquities\u003cbr\u003eLaunching of the Sicilian Expedition\u003cbr\u003eThe Debate at Syracuse\u003cbr\u003eThe Athenians Arrive in Sicily\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton\u003cbr\u003eRecall of Alcibiades\u003cbr\u003eAthenian Victory before Syracuse\u003cbr\u003eThe Debate at Camarina\u003cbr\u003eAlcibiades in Sparta\u003cbr\u003eMore Athenian Successes at Syracuse\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook VII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGylippus Arrives in Syracuse\u003cbr\u003eLetter of Nicias\u003cbr\u003eFortification of Decelea\u003cbr\u003eAthenian Defeat in the Great Harbour\u003cbr\u003eAthenian Defeat at Epipolae\u003cbr\u003eSyracusan Victory at Sea\u003cbr\u003eDestruction of the Athenian Expedition\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook VIII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlarm at Athens\u003cbr\u003eBeginning of Persian Intervention\u003cbr\u003eThe Oligarchic Coup\u003cbr\u003eAthenian Victory at Cynossema\u003cbr\u003eAppendices\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eMaps\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThucydides\u003c\/b\u003e (c. 460 BC–400 BC) was a general who was exiled for his failure to defend the Greek city of Amphipolis in Thrace.  During his exile, he began compiling histories and accounts of the war from various participants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRex Warner\u003c\/b\u003e was a Professor of the University of Connecticut from 1964 until his retirement in He was born in 1905 and went to Wadham College, Oxford, where he gained a \"first\" in Classical Moderations, and took a degree in English Literature. He taught in Egypt and England, and was Director of the British Institute, Athens, from 1945 to 1947. He has written poems, novels and critical essays, has worked on films and broadcasting, and has translated many works, of which Xenophon’s \u003cb\u003eHistory of My Time\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Persian Expedition\u003c\/b\u003e, Thucydides’ \u003cb\u003eThe Peloponnesian War\u003c\/b\u003e, and Plutarch’s \u003cb\u003eLives\u003c\/b\u003e (under the title \u003cb\u003eFall of the Roman Republic\u003c\/b\u003e) and \u003cb\u003eMoral Essays\u003c\/b\u003e have been published in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. I. Finley\u003c\/b\u003e was a professor of ancient history and master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He died in 1986.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301530587365,"sku":"NP9780140440393","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140440393.jpg?v=1767739804","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-history-of-the-peloponnesian-war-isbn-9780140440393","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}