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Article: THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: ATHENS AND SPARTA IN SAVAGE CONFLICT 431-404 BC
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- January 10, 2004
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THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: ATHENS AND SPARTA IN SAVAGE CONFLICT 431-404 BC by Donald Kagan HarperCollins, £25, pp. 511, ISBN 0007115059
When Greek met Greek
This book is an abridged version of one of the great works of modern classical scholarship, Donald Kagan's four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war, which originally appeared between 1969 and 1987. This crisis in the affairs of the Greek world in the fifth century BC was seen, even at the time, as a turning point in human civilisation.
Nearly half a century before, the Greeks had united against the great continental power of Persia. Led by Athens and Sparta, the two principal Greek powers, they had driven the fleets and armies of ...