Understanding 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 Th

The second book of Thucydides' history is of particular literary interest, containing as it does such important sections as the funeral oration, the account of

Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

For three decades in the fifth century b.c. the ancient world was torn apart bya conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of t