Name: The Loeb Classical Library: History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume III : Books 5–6
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The Loeb Classical Library: History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume III : Books 5–6

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The Loeb Classical Library: History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume III : Books 5–6Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that he described so graphically. Later, as general in 423 he failed to save Amphipolis from the enemy and was disgraced. He tells us about this, not in volumes of self justification, but in one sentence of his history of the warthat it

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