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Praise for A New History of the Peloponnesian War

‘An insightful, highly readable history of the ﬁ rst all-out war in western

history. Tritle knows Greek history and he knows what war does to

soldiers and civilians alike.’

Tom Palaima, University of Texas at Austin

‘Not another paraphrase of Thucydides, Tritle’s sensitive new history of

the great war between Athens and Sparta marshals the literary and

material evidence to explore the human and societal experience, showing

once again that military history extends far beyond the battleﬁ eld.’

Waldemar Heckel, University of Calgary

‘Swift narrative, mastery of modern scholarship, and unusual integration

of classical literature. Like his great source Thucydides, the author was a

soldier, and the terrible brutality of war is immanent.’

Mortimer Chambers, UCLA

‘By helping us understand broadly and deeply the human and social

dimension of this war, Tritle’s book brilliantly justiﬁ es its ambitious title

of a “new history” of an often-treated old war.’

Kurt A. Raaﬂ aub, Brown University

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HISTORY OF THE

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A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication

Lawrence A. Tritle - A New History of the Peloponnesian War (2009).pdf