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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent translation,
By Iron Man Jack (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Peloponnesian War (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
We are very lucky to have a wealth of good translations of Thucydides. This is one of the best.
Hammond has also done a great job with his (the best) prose translation of the Iliad.
6 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
First Athens thus the United States....history repeats,
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This review is from: The Peloponnesian War (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
THE PELOPONESIAN WAR by Thucydides. Written a very long time ago. In the aftermath of Athens saving Western civilization not once but twice from Eastern totalitariansism and barbarism, the rest of Greece......now that the coast was clear and acting out of extreme jealousy and lack of gratitude, declared war on Athens. No good deed goes unpunished. Extremely difficult reading. One needs a scorecard to keep track of all the players. Easy to see why it has never been filmed or dramatized in anyway. Still worth the effort and a major historical work by the man credited with being the father of the modern history writing. Not so much a war but a civilization literally committing suicide. Greece has been a backwater ever since and man are they still sensitive about that!!!
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The Peloponnesian War (Oxford World's Classics) by Thucydides (Paperback - July 26, 2009)
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