![]() ![]() ![]() In 2005, I read my first book on the Peloponnesian war. In this essay, I have selected three books from a dozen or so in my library that best illustrate the origins, conduct, and consequences of this “war like no other.” However, reading Thucydides without background information and help from scholars is extremely difficult. The seminal book on this war is by Thucydides who was a participant and observer in that dangerous time. ![]() The more I read about this ancient war (431 BC to 404 BC) between the Delian League (led by Athens) and the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta), the more I understood how relevant and urgent its lessons are for us today. It was fifteen years ago that I first began reading about the Peloponnesian War. If the borrower of that book reads this essay - please will you return my copy?! Missing is Donald Kagan’s one-volume masterpiece. From my collection of books on the Peloponnesian War. ![]()
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