History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Thucydides commanded an Athenian fleet, failed to relieve a city, was exiled for it, and spent the rest of the war interviewing people on both sides. He wrote, he said, not for the applause of the moment but as a possession for all time.

The plague in Athens, Pericles' funeral oration, the disastrous Sicilian expedition, and the Melian dialogue — in which Athenian envoys tell a small neutral island that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. It is still on the syllabus at war colleges for exactly that reason.

The founding text of political realism and one of the greatest histories ever written.

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