
Editor's Pick
History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
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Thucydides's account of the war between Athens and Sparta (431-404 BCE) that ended Athenian power. The first work of rigorous political and military history — including Pericles's Funeral Oration, the Melian Dialogue, and the catastrophic Sicilian Expedition.
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