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" This book has everything: maps, glossaries, etc. Makes Thucydides much more accessible. "

" Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict. "

" Love Thucydides not only for the fact that everyone made great speeches before the big battles. "

" The political speeches of the advocates for war sound incredibly contemporary in light of recent US aggression. "

" Best book I've ever read. Description of the Athenians defeat at Syracuse and the army's subsequent extermination was heart-wrenching. Also life and times of Pericles - good times and bad - were very descriptive. "

" Finished it! Whoo hoo! Happy days are here again! I read it because I wanted to read it. The main thing I learned is that history repeats itself, as our totally ignorant of history leadership is doing right now with our ill-conceived wars. "

" My favorite version of the classic Thucydides text, as what can often be long and very dense passages are interrupted with ample maps and internal references to keep the reader "grounded" in time and place. I found this helped a great deal when fitting the details of particular battles, campaigns, and invasions within the larger framework of the ongoing war. "

" This is an astounding legacy from two and a half millennia ago which very existence clearly prove that 1. Mankind's intelligence has not increased one iota over the last two centuries, and in most likelihood nor over the preceding centuries prior to these annals of sophistry in which you can find the origin of pretty much every major speech of every major leader of every major (or minor) country or power ever since. 2. Since we clearly never seem to learn anything from history (the very concept which in essence was coined by this text and which simply means something like "the telling of what has happened" but that from the very beginning was mired in sophistry (yes, I used the word twice and if you don't know what it means go look it up), we are truly doomed to repeat it. The only difference between now and then is that nowadays we have the technology to easier ruthlessly kill people while we film the very act of murder through drones with built in cameras, operated from of all places, Nevada, home of the gambling capital of the world. "

" Excellent history, proving that human nature hasn't changed over all these years. Thucydides seems a very modern narrator. "

" This is the best edition of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War available today. A collection of classicists update the Crawley translation and supply commentary of their own, as well as other helpful study guides. "

" Sometimes used as an international relations text at universities. It covers every facet of this prolonged struggle between fellow Greeks. "

" It is tough to fight your way through this book, but it was worth the effort for me. "

" Thousands of years later this is still one of the most gripping histories ever written. That it is also one of the first is astonishing. "

" Very moving work. I almost wept during one massacre. "

" Very interesting history - with a mythic storytelling feel. Lies somewhere between Homer and Bulfinch. "

" The account of the Peloponnesian War - "

" I was reading this on a self-imposed political science project but I really had no idea it would be so compelling and evocative. There's an incredible sense of immediacy and even suspense. The sophistication and clarity of the writing is just astonishing... Am I gushing?! "

" A hellacious read. Only for the dedicated. "

" I hate to say it, but Steven Pressman was more interesting. "

" It was a bit dry, but if you read it fast, and look for patterns in how they do things it can be very informative, and even a little bit funny. "

" Didn't read all of it, but what I did read was great. I'd like to spend some more time with this one. The speeches are great. "

" This is the first book I had to read in my quest for higher education! Very interesting, just glad it is over! "

" Total Rating: 5 of 10

Characters: 1 of 2
Themes/Symbols: 1 of 2
Plot: 1 of 2
Prose: 1 of 2
Wider Influence: 1 of 2 "

" Another book that I need to re-read after many years. The only reason I give it four stars instead of five is because I found it rather tedious. Then again, I was much younger, and I do plan on reading it again soon. "

" I really don't see the point in reading this cover-to-cover. I had to read Woodruff's abridged version during my undergrad, and it was much more to the point and I liked his translation better as well. "

" The place to start with the Peloponnesean War. "

" Read this and you will think you are reading today's descriptions of the American government's foreign policy. Yet this is (431-404 B.C.E.) Greece...trippy. "

" I LOVED this book. I didn't read all of it, but the exerts I read for class I found fascinating. Definitely not a sit-down-and-read-it-to-the-family kind of book, but it's worth picking up and slowly making your way through. "

" A history of the Peloponnesian War. If I were more of an ancient war buff (like George S. Patton Jr. was), I may have gotten into this a lot more than I did. But it doesn't do much for an average person. Reads more like a textbook for grade-schoolers. "

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