by Tucídides · RBA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447378357
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Hardcover book with dust jacket containing books III and IV of 'The Peloponnesian War' by Thucydides, belonging to the Classical Library GREDOS. This edition, published in 2015 by RBA, offers a translation by Juan José Torres Esbarranch and consists of 423 pages. It is a fundamental work to understand the political and critical history of ancient Greece.
Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
