About this title: Much of our knowledge of the Peloponnesian War--the 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta--is derived from this classic text. Sparta emerged victorious, and it dominated Greece for several decades afterward.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Corners are a little bent/rounded on cover. Cover has some light wear and tear on the edges. Cover has a little wear and tear. Creases in cover and sp. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Modern Library
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good. ---510 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The paperback cover has light signs of aging. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date Published: 1982-05-01
ISBN-13:9780075543725ISBN:0075543729
Description: Very Good. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: The Modern Library, Random House
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very Good. Very Good-Condition. Binding tight, pages clean. Light edge-wear. Faint scratch down front cover. Light tanning to inner covers and pages. Previous owner stamp on first page. Light scuffing to back cover. Very nice copy! read more
Description: Good. Paperback, Dolphin Books, no date found, cover has some staining and soiling wuth edge and corner wear, a corner bend to back, and several dents to back of spine, text is clean and spine is tight, ships within 24 hr. sku 5002. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good + THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR by Thucydides. Penguin, 1968. Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDust Jacket: . NOTES: Translation & introduction by Rex Warner. Showing light exterior wear/creasing, overall clean and tight with no owner markings. Images available upon request. Please email us with any questions. read more
Description: Fair + Paperback in fair + condition. The cover has a few creases, and a few very light stains. The edges are rubbrd just a little, there is very little under lining, former owners name is inside, this is a very good readiong copy, [Satisfaction Guaranteed! ]. read more
Edition: First edition. 1st Bantam Edition
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam Classics, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Slight rubbing at upper left front cover but otherwise, the binding, pages and spine are intact. 525 p. Includes illustrations. With a bibliographical note There is shelf wear on the upper right front corner and some yellowing around the edge of the pages, but the book is in fine condition with no other flaws. A great study copy. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY
Description: 12mo. No date. 556 pages. Translated by Richard Crawley. Illustrated with map. Spine sunned and lightly worn at tip and base, name of previous owner, else a very good copy. read more
Edition: Reprint 1963
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, NY
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good Plus in Better Than Good Price Intact jacket. Ex-Library. 7 X 4 1/4. Revised and abridged with an introduction by P.A. Brunt. LIBRARY STAMP ON TOP AND BOTTOM EDGE, BOOKPOCKET ON INNER BACK FLYLEAF. Pages are tight and clean, edges browning. Binding firm and straight. Page edges and corners good, minor wear. If needed for reference, research, analysis, dissertation or just enjoyment, this is a working copy only. read more
Edition: Reprint. Complete Hobbes Translation
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780226801063ISBN:0226801063
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Previous owner's name on verso of front wrapper, corner creased on back wrapper, note written on verso of back end paper, minor extremity wear, light rubbing. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 608 p. Contains: Illustrations, Index. Audience: General/trade. Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers ... read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1954
Description: Good. 12mo Mass Market Paperback GOOD READING COPY with cover wear, pages are clean though tanning expecially at edges, Topics Ancient Greece; History; Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B. C; read more
"Just before I started college, there was a two week late summer honors seminar on the Peloponnesian War and we read this. I had gone to a small, not so great high school-this kick started me into university. It was good to finally be on the same level as my classmates (I read above grade level all through grade and high school and read rings around my classmates)."
""The Corcyraeans...went to the sanctuary of Hera and persuaded about fifty men to take their trial, and condemned them all to death. The mass of the suppliants who had refused to do so, on seeing what was taking place, slew each other there on the consecrated ground; some hanged themselves upon the trees, and others destroyed themselves as they were severally able. During seven days...the Corcyraeans were engaged in butchering those of their fellow-citizens whom they regarded as their enemies: and although the crime imputed was that of attempting to put down the democracy, some were slain also for private hatred, others by their debtors because of the moneys owed to them. Death thus raged in every shape; and as usually happens at such times, there was no length to which violence did not go; sons were killed by their fathers, and suppliants dragged from the altar or killed upon it, while some were even walled up in the temple of Dionysus and died there.""
"Completely awesome. Also reading this book will demonstrate to you that Coase, the Chicago School, and in general law and economics thinkers are doing nothing more than to rehash the ideas that Thucydides understood and applied in his analyses thousands of years ago.
Not that imitation is bad. But these ideas aren't new in this century or the last."
"Only four stars for historical significance. I don't recommend reading it unless you know the war already, enjoy reading war histories, or adore the Ancient Greeks. I fall in the last category and still found it super dull. I read this twice for two classes and still couldn't stomach it. But, it is the first history book in the Western world, so, kind of hard to lose stars on a first attempt."
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