Thucydides — Attic red-figure pottery painting

Θουκυδίδης Thucydides (c. 460–400 BC)

History of the Peloponnesian War

The defining work of political realism. Thucydides chronicles the war between Athens and Sparta (431–404 BC) — two alliance blocs, small states crushed between great powers, and a dominant civilization destroyed by its own hubris. The structural parallel to China's Warring States is near-exact.

Interactive Greek

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Episodes

1
Pericles' Funeral OrationBook II, Chapters 34–46
2
The Melian DialogueBook V, Chapters 85–116
3
The Sicilian ExpeditionBook VI, Chapters 1–32
4
Destruction in SicilyBook VII, Chapters 75–87