Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

by Donald Kagan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801495563
• ISBN13: 9780801495564
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher