by Tucídides · tapa dura · ISBN 9788424924775
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History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) between Athens and Sparta. It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who witnessed and participated in the war. The work is divided into eight books and narrates the events of the war from its beginnings to 411 BC. It is considered a classic work of Greek literature and a fundamental source for the study of the history of Ancient Greece.
Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
