Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War doughnut chart From Shakespeare and Mark Twain

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Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War doughnut chart From Shakespeare and Mark TwainUnderstanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century B. C. is largely dependent on the work of the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view Thucydides' account as infallibleThis book challenges that received wisdom, advancing original and controversial views of Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War; his misrepresentation of Alcibiades and Demosthenes; his relationship with