A New History of the Peloponnesian WarISBN: 978-1-4051-2251-1
Paperback
314 pages
November 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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"Recommended. Undergraduate libraries and above". (Choice, 1 November 2010)
“An insightful, highly readable history of the first all-out war in western history. Tritle knows Greek history and he knows what war does to soldiers and civilians alike.”
Tom Palaima, University of Texas at Austin
“Not another paraphrase of Thucydides, Tritle's sensitive
new history of the great war between Athens and Sparta marshals the
literary and material evidence to explore the human and societal
experience, showing once again that military history extends far
beyond the battlefield.”
Waldemar Heckel, University of Calgary
“Swift narrative, mastery of modern scholarship, and
unusual integration of classical literature. Like his great source
Thucydides, the author was a soldier, and the terrible brutality of
war is immanent.”
Mortimer Chambers, UCLA
“By helping us understand broadly and deeply the human and
social dimension of this war, Tritle’s book brilliantly
justifies its ambitious title of a ‘new history’ of an
often-treated old war.”
Kurt A. Raaflaub, Brown University