Robin Waterfield: The History of the Peloponnesian War, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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- Verlag:
- Piatkus, 10/2026
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781399814737
- Artikelnummer:
- 12760157
- Umfang:
- 784 Seiten
- Maße:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Stärke:
- 40 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 8.10.2026
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR An authoritative new translation of Thucydides's masterpiece.
Thucydides has been essential reading for centuries. A sweeping narrative that vividly depicts the events of the war between Athens and Sparta that began in 431 BCE and would continue until 404, his History depicts a conflict that embroiled not only mainland Greece but Greek states from the eastern Mediterranean to as far west as Italy and Sicily. The only existing contemporary narrative of this conflict, Thucydides's words brim with military, moral, and political reflections, offering critical commentary on challenges that still dominate our world today, from the strife of civil war, to the devastation of widespread plague to the nature of political power.
In this dazzling new translation of one of the great masterworks of classical Greece, Robin Waterfield's version of The History of the Peloponnesian Waroffers an incisive and timely window onto the nature and causes of warfare.
Biografie
Robin Waterfield was formerly a university lecturer at the universities of Newcastle and St Andrews, before becoming a commissioning editor at Penguin Books. A freelance writer and translator since the early 1980s, he has published numerous translations of the Greek classics for both the Oxford World's Classics and Penguin Classics. He now lives in the far south of Greece on a small olive farm.
