Year: 1995 Author: Thucydides Performer: Pat Bottino Genre: Audio Book. Publisher: Inc. Blackstone Audio. Type: audiobook Audio codec: MP3 Audio bitrate: 64 kbps Description: The Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 B.C. and continued intermittently for 27 years (404 B.C.). It was a war between the powerful land force of Sparta and its allies, against the supremely powerful naval force of Athens and its allies. The History of the Peloponnesian War is a story of battles on land and at sea, of short and long campaigns and sieges, of alliances hastily made and soon broken, and, most importantly, of the behavior of people as the war dragged on and on - of the inevitable "corrosion of the human spirit". Thucydides, whose passionate desire to record the truth is clearly apparent, vividly narrates exciting episodes and carefully describes tactical aspects of the war. He also provides illuminating character profiles. Few will argue that Thucydides was not the greatest and most exciting historian of antiquity. Nearly three decades of constant fighting left Athens bankrupt, exhausted, and demoralized. But Sparta and its allies were in no position to maintain an even harsher military hegemony over Greece. In the detritus of the Peloponnesian War, the agrarian fighting of the old polis was ended. Warfare now meant expansion of conflict onto a variety of costly and deadly new horizons, where past protocol meant little. The Greek genius was freed to apply capital, technology, and manpower to war without ethical restraint, but in the process the old idea of a city-state was lost. Additional info: Modern strategists and politicians study closely this war in order to draw useful conclusions in case of any probable war that may break out between a land-powerful nation and a sea-powerful nation.
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Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War
Author: Thucydides
Performer: Pat Bottino
Genre: Audio Book.
Publisher: Inc. Blackstone Audio.
Type: audiobook
Audio codec: MP3
Audio bitrate: 64 kbps
Description: The Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 B.C. and continued intermittently for 27 years (404 B.C.). It was a war between the powerful land force of Sparta and its allies, against the supremely powerful naval force of Athens and its allies.
The History of the Peloponnesian War is a story of battles on land and at sea, of short and long campaigns and sieges, of alliances hastily made and soon broken, and, most importantly, of the behavior of people as the war dragged on and on - of the inevitable "corrosion of the human spirit".
Thucydides, whose passionate desire to record the truth is clearly apparent, vividly narrates exciting episodes and carefully describes tactical aspects of the war. He also provides illuminating character profiles. Few will argue that Thucydides was not the greatest and most exciting historian of antiquity.
Nearly three decades of constant fighting left Athens bankrupt, exhausted, and demoralized. But Sparta and its allies were in no position to maintain an even harsher military hegemony over Greece. In the detritus of the Peloponnesian War, the agrarian fighting of the old polis was ended. Warfare now meant expansion of conflict onto a variety of costly and deadly new horizons, where past protocol meant little. The Greek genius was freed to apply capital, technology, and manpower to war without ethical restraint, but in the process the old idea of a city-state was lost.
Additional info: Modern strategists and politicians study closely this war in order to draw useful conclusions in case of any probable war that may break out between a land-powerful nation and a sea-powerful nation.
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