The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace after the first; and Thucydides had not unified them into one account when death came sometime before His history of the first conflict, —, was nearly complete; Thucydides was still at work on this when the war spread to Sicily and into a conflict — likewise complete in his awful and brilliant record, though not fitted into the whole. His story of the final conflict of — breaks off in the middle of a sentence when dealing with the year So his work was left unfinished and as a whole unrevised.
Yet in brilliance of description and depth of insight this history has no superior. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Thucydides is in four volumes. Books I and II -- 2. Books V and VI -- 4. Addeddate City Cambridge, Mass. Edition [Rev.
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You don't need an account and it only takes a minute. You can also support it by buying one of the collections. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. This belief was not without its grounds. The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection; and he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel; those who delayed doing so at once having it in contemplation.
Indeed this was the greatest movement yet known in history, not only of the Hellenes, but of a large part of the barbarian world—I had almost said of mankind. For though the events of remote antiquity, and even those that more immediately preceded the war, could not from lapse of time be clearly ascertained, yet the evidences which an inquiry carried as far back as was practicable leads me to trust, all point to the conclusion that there was nothing on a great scale, either in war or in other matters.
For instance, it is evident that the country now called Hellas had in ancient times no settled population; on the contrary, migrations were of frequent occurrence, the several tribes readily abandoning their homes under the pressure of superior numbers. Without commerce, without freedom of communication either by land or sea, cultivating no more of their territory than the exigencies of life required, destitute of capital, never planting their land for they could not tell when an invader might not come and take it all away, and when he did come they had no walls to stop him , thinking that the necessities of daily sustenance could be supplied at one place as well as another, they cared little for shifting their habitation, and consequently neither built large cities nor attained to any other form of greatness.
The richest soils were always most subject to this change of masters; such as the district now called Thessaly, Boeotia, most of the Peloponnese, Arcadia excepted, and the most fertile parts of the rest of Hellas. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. It appears your browser does not have it turned on.
Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Topics librivox , audiobook , history , ancient history , Sparta , Athens , audiobook , librivox. It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian general who served in the war.
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