HI DojoPat;
Oh, I give Thucydides all the credit in the world!!! But I am still catching my breath from Kagen's "The Peloponessian War" - in which Kagen cheerfully pirates whole sections from Thucydides, unabashedly and with admiration.
Some books you pick up casually and get drawn into (the Hobbit trilogy or the Lensman series come to mind). Others you have to get psyched up for - Churchill's "History of the English Speaking Peoples" for example, in its eight-volume splendour.
I have Thucydides pulled down but haven't tackled him yet. I suspect that the brilliance of Thucydides has a lot to do with the brilliance of the translator.
Don
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Originally Posted by DojoPat
I have to stick up for Thucydides here. His history of the Athens/Sparta war is an amazing story. Yes, it's a very long tale, because it was a very long war. He invented "military history" as a genuine discipline for goodness's sake, written by a general who was a participant, and yet who kept a very objective analytical perspective. Give the man some credit :-)
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