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A review by bcjoneschrist
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition by Thucydides
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
Occasionally, reading old Thucydides' writings--with his slow, plodding, matter-of-fact pace--starts to feel as arduous as the decades-long turmoil in most of the Hellenic world all those thousands of years ago, but once you become more familiar with the people, places, and names of things that existed way back when. A fascinating look at how humans have been fighting with, murdering, making treaties with, and once again murdering each other for thousands of years. A comforting thought.