History of the Peloponnesian War (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thucydides
- First Published: 1550
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 431-411
- Setting: Greece and the Mediterranean
- Principal Characters: Pericles, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Alcibiades, Nicias, Archidamus, Brasidas
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: War, Soldiers, Greek or Roman times, Civil wars, Battles, Greece or Greek people, Heads of state, Peloponnesian War, Generals
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Mediterranean
In writing his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides looked for human causes behind results and refused to credit the gods with responsibility for the acts of human beings. Impartially he chronicled the clash of a military and a commercial imperialism: the land empire of the Spartans confronting the Athenian maritime league. Some have attributed to him an attitude of moral indifference, such as is revealed in his report of the debate between Athenian and Melian ambassadors, but he wrote with no intention of either moralizing or producing a cultural history. He was a...
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