 The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
A plague so devastating it destroyed belief in the gods; prisoners of war worked mercilessly to death in stone quarries; statesmen debating the motives for military action with chilling pragmatism; coup leaders concealing the breakdown of values beneath a sickly veneer of spin . . . The horrors, dilemmas and costs of war have never been captured more urgently or more rigorously than by the Athenian general Thucydides, who recorded the seismic conflict between democratic Athens and authoritarian Sparta that engulfed the Greek world for a generation from 431 BC.
'The greatest historian that ever lived'
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Translated by Rex Warner. Introduction by M. I. Finley. Preface by Theodore K. Rabb.
Bound in gold-blocked cloth. Binding designs are by Neil Packer, based on relief sculpture from Athenian monuments of the 5th century BC, with classically inspired trophy motifs on the spines. Illustrated with full colour reproductions of contemporary objects relating to the text, selected from museums across Europe, Britain and North America. Set in Poliphilus.
33 colour illustrations on 17 pages of plates. 656 Pages.
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