History of the Peloponnesian War (Version 2)

The first modern mind, writing about the worst thing he ever saw. Thucydides gives the war that broke Greece: the funeral oration, the plague in Athens, the Melian dialogue where power drops the pretense, and the Sicilian expedition that ends in annihilation. You will discover history stripped of gods and omens, explained by interest, fear, and honor alone. Twenty five centuries on, nothing about it has dated. Press play and learn how it happens.

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