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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War | 
 enlarge | Author: Thucydides
Creators: Robert B. Strassler, Victor Davis Hanson, Richard Crawley
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 25515
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 752
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.6
ISBN: 0684827905
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN: 9780684827902
ASIN: 0684827905
Publication Date: September 10, 1998
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Condition: USED PAPERBACK, COVER CREASED, A FEW PAGES BENT, SHELF DUST AND WEAR (SJ) ISBN 0684827905
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Amazon.com Review
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the great books in the Western tradition, as well as its first true historical narrative. Editor Robert Strassler has annotated this classic text to make it more accessible to modern readers and added dozens of maps for easy reference. A helpful introduction places Thucydides in proper historical context and a series of short appendices focus on particular aspects of life and war during the period. But the bulk of the book itself, where Thucydides chronicles the long struggle between Athens and Sparta, enjoys an unexpected freshness on these pages--partly due to Strassler's magnificent editorial labors, but mostly because it's a great story resonant with heroes, villains, bravery, desperation, and tragedy. Every library should have a copy of Thucydides in it, especially libraries on military history, and The Landmark Thucydides is without question the best version available.
Product Description
Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, The Peloponnesian War is a mine of military, moral, political, and philosophical wisdom.However, this classic book has long presented obstacles to the uninitiated reader. Robert Strassler's new edition removes these obstacles by providing a new coherence to the narrative overall, and by effectively reconstructing the lost cultural context that Thucydides shared with his original audience. Based on the venerable Richard Crawley translation, updated and revised for modern readers. The Landmark Thucydides includes a vast array of superbly designed and presented maps, brief informative appendices by outstanding classical scholars on subjects of special relevance to the text, explanatory marginal notes on each page, an index of unprecedented subtlety, and numerous other useful features. In any list of the Great Books of Western Civilization, The Peloponnesian War stands near the top. This authoritative new edition will ensure that its greatness is appreciated by future generations.
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 Paperback edition fell apart as I read it June 21, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This edition of Thucydides is really excellent. There are maps and/or images of artifacts on almost every page, along with marginal summaries, and a lot of helpful appendices.
However, as I read it (over the course of a week), the book completely fell apart. Every twenty pages or so a large section of the text would break off and fall out of the book. It was horrifying. I've never read a book with such a terrible binding, and I had to dispose of it by the end since it was just a pile of separate sheets of paper.
 Thucydides May 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thank you for your timely service. The book was brand new and arrived in excellent condition.
Shame on the Publisher! April 21, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a superb edition of one of the greatest books ever written. However, there is a MAJOR CAVEAT: the paperback edition has a TERRIBLE BINDING, and will fall apart on you as you read it, guaranteed. This happened to every student in our class. Such a fantastic edition of a classic should obviously be sewn, rather than glued, but the publisher has apparently tried to cheap it out with an inferior glued binding which, I repeat, WILL NOT LAST. We wrote the publisher as a group, but did not receive an adequate reaponse. By all means, use this edition, but if you want to keep it, BUY THE HARDCOVER.
Landmark Indeed February 13, 2008
Like the Landmark Herodotus, this version of Thucydides; work is unparalleled. The maps and the notes, not to mention a brief synopsis of each chapter makes the work fit in its own context.
A must by for any ancient historian.
A Tale for all times February 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
No, my title is not just playing off some "American Dream" story. Thucydides is considered to be the first moder historian. He wrote about the Greek wars, while studying human nature, and it produced this masterpiece which can honestly be considered a blueprint for all future wars and why people fight it because he was not just telling the "what's" of this great war, but the "why's." If you want to know the history of the Pelopennesian War, this book is for you. If you want to understand why people fight wars - throughout history - this book is for you. If you are a student of human nature, this book is for you.
A must have on the shelf of every student of history, philosophy, sociology, or liberal arts!
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