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Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 1: Thucydides begins his history
The first sentence of the book names the author and the war, and gives his reasons for starting at once: he expected a great war, and he saw both sides at their peak.
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ΘουκυδίδηςThoukydídēsThucydidesἈθηναῖοςAthēnaîosan Athenianξυνέγραψεxynégrapsewrote upτὸνtòntheπόλεμονpólemonwarτῶνtônof theΠελοποννησίωνPeloponnēsíōnPeloponnesiansκαὶkaìandἈθηναίωνAthēnaíōnAthenians,
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Book 1, passage by passage
- 1.1.1 Thucydides begins his history. Thucydides of Athens wrote up the war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, telling…
- 1.1.2 The greatest upheaval. This was the greatest upheaval ever to come upon the Greeks, and upon a…
- 1.1.3 The earlier past cannot be known. For what came before the war, and what is older still, could not be…
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