Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War
400 BCE* · Work
The first attempt at history as cold analysis rather than storytelling, by a general who lost his command and then explained the war.
On these timelines: Ancient Greece, Arts and Thoughts, Master, The Peloponnesian War
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