Thucydides

<b>The bestselling author of <i>The Peloponnesian War</i> examines Thucydides as the first modern historian. </b> <p/> Donald Kagan's magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War is recognized as a landmark of classical scholarship. Now Kagan-one of the most respected classical historians in the world-turns his attention from one of the greatest conflicts in history to the author who so magnificently chronicled it: Thucydides the first truly modern historian. This study offers readers a remarkable opportunity to experience one great historian engaging another across the centuries in a work that is at once an engrossing voyage of discovery a moving tribute and a revelatory meditation on the practice of history and its value in human affairs.