History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
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“A narrative which would give you the chills. It was written four hundred years before Christ and it talks about how human nature is always the enemy of anything superior. Thucydides writes about how words in his time have changed from their ordinary meaning, how actions and opinions can be altered in the blink of an eye. It’s like nothing has changed from his time to mine. | An obligation for every student of history. | People often ask me for book recommendations, so here are 3 books that changed my life.”
Source →“A narrative which would give you the chills. It was written four hundred years before Christ and it talks about how human nature is always the enemy of anything superior. Thucydides writes about how words in his time have changed from their ordinary meaning, how actions and opinions can be altered in the blink of an eye. It’s like nothing has changed from his time to mine. | An obligation for every student of history. | People often ask me for book recommendations, so here are 3 books that changed my life.”
Source →“A narrative which would give you the chills. It was written four hundred years before Christ and it talks about how human nature is always the enemy of anything superior. Thucydides writes about how words in his time have changed from their ordinary meaning, how actions and opinions can be altered in the blink of an eye. It’s like nothing has changed from his time to mine. | An obligation for every student of history. | People often ask me for book recommendations, so here are 3 books that changed my life.”
Source →Recommended by 5 notable people, including Ryan Holiday and Matt Mullenweg
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in War, About War, and Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday.
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long lifeanddeath struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied...
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in War, About War, and Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday.
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“A narrative which would give you the chills. It was written four hundred years before Christ and it talks about how human nature is always the enemy of anything superior. Thucydides writes about how words in his time have changed from their ordinary meaning, how actions and opinions can be altered in the blink of an eye. It’s like nothing has changed from his time to mine. | An obligation for every student of history. | People often ask me for book recommendations, so here are 3 books that changed my life.”
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“This is a vast, character-centered historical novel that moves between drawing-room conversations, battlefield narration and extended reflections on history and free will. You’ll spend long stretches inside the heads of several aristocratic families while the nation slides toward and through war; the reward is sharp psychological observation and richly textured social detail. The main limitation is scale: scenes repeat themes at length and Tolstoy stops to argue about historical causation, which breaks narrative momentum for readers who want a tighter plot.”
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