The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides covers the first twenty years of the war between Athens and Sparta before it’s abrupt ending, but throughout his text the motives of the participants and the analysis of unintended consequences shows give the war it’s full context.The first book-created by later editors not Thucydides-of the work focuses on early Greek history, political commentary, and seeks to explain how the war was caused and why it happened when it did. Two political-economic systems compete for influence and dominance after the greatest war that has ever happened, but peace could not last.
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