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NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE IN SOME COUNTRIES.;Cataloged from publisher supplied information.;Spoken audio file.;Duration: ca. 01:43:56 hr.;Mode of access: World Wide Web.;Performed by Macat.com.;Originally released by Macat. The History of the Peloponnesian War is acknowledged as the first great work in the fields of history and political theory. ?It uses narrative, debate, and analysis to document the war between Athens and Sparta (431?404 BCE). But its importance lies less in the story than in the way Thucydides tells it. It is the first major work of political inquiry that did not attribute events to divine intervention. It introduced instead a critical method of looking to human actions as the basis for understanding?a method that continues to be used today. Many greats cite Thucydides as an influence; figures including Hobbes, Hume and Nietzsche have praised his writing.
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Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War is generally acknowledged as the first great work in the fields of both history and political theory. It uses a combination of narrative, debate, and analysis to document the war between Athens and Sparta (431404 b.c.e.). But the importance of the work lies less in the story, than in the way Thucydides tells it. History was the first major work of political inquiry that did not relate events to divine influences. It introduced instead a critical method of looking to the facts of human actions as the basis of our understandinga method that continues to be used today, more than two millennia later. Many of the most important political thinkers in the Western tradition cite Thucydides as an influence, and major figures including Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and Friedrich Nietzsche have praised his writing.