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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War (Oxford World's Classics) [2009] paperback Condition:New You assume all this air'The greatest historian that ever lived' Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460 400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Thucydides himself was a participant in the war; to his history he brings an awesome