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History of the Peloponnesian Wars

History of the Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides. He wrote his account of the Peloponnesian War, that between Athens and Sparta. Thucydides himself was a general on the Athenian side so some of his accounts were first-hand experience. While not the first historian, he’s considered the first to seek accuracy and truthiness in describing events.

I learned a lot about Greece’s geography, for example that the isolated land mass west of Athens is known as the Peloponnese, where Sparta is located (Athens is located in the region called Attica). I also didn’t know that besides nowadays Turkey, Greece has settlements in Sicily and even some parts of Italy.

One thing I didn’t know and would have made me reconsider reading the book is that it’s incomplete, it actually doesn’t include the end of the war, even though Thucydides lived past it.

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This entry was parsed from an older retrospective post.