Recommended Bibliography

  • Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated by Rex Warner, Penguin Books, 1972.
  • P. J. Rhodes, A Short History of Ancient Greece, London and New York, 2014.
  • The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, by Robert B. Strassler (editor) and Victor Davis Hanson (Introduction), 1998.
  • S. Hornblower, A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume I: Books 1 – 3, Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • S. Hornblower, A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books 4 – 5.24, Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • S. Hornblower, A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25 – 8.109, Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, edited by Jeremy Mynott, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, 2013.