History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides

Pericles’s famous funeral oration is, without a doubt, one of the greatest speeches passed down in history, yet there is dispute as to the true meaning of democracy put forth. Most believe that Pericles was praising Athenian democracy, yet some...

While Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War primarily serves as a straightforward historical text—bereft of the grand digressions and parables of Herodotus’s Histories—there are moments that strike one as especially poetic in tone. One...