Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War : Books VI - VII

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Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War : Books VI - VIIA Companion to the Penguin Translation of Books VI and VII of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War with Introduction and Commentary by N. K. Rutter. Thucydides thought that the war he chose to write about, the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, was the greatest in Greek history in length and geographical extent, in the scale of the armaments employed and in the amount of suffering and destruction caused. Books VI and VII describe the

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