Ebook: The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War.
Author: Kagan Donald
- Tags: HISTORY, Military / General, Regions & Countries - Europe, History & Archaeology, Greece
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- City: Ithaca
- Language: English
- epub
The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided?Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was Read more...