Description The first volume of Donald Kagan\'s acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts.
He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided? Kagan takes issue with Thucydides\' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Emp.
Description The first volume of Donald Kagan\'s acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts