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**kucheravka** · 05-17-2012, 05:01 AM

Thucydides is a tough read, lots happens, lots of details,
on the wars, it is much more detailed than Herodotus,
Herodotus is a much easier and enjoyable read, it covers
the same wars but covers a lot of other history.

Thucydides is required reading at US War College.

It's all about War, Politics, Society, Tactics, Diplomacy, Allegiances,
some legend is thrown in of a very significant nature verified by
archeology, very important information on Dorians,
you can even describe it as a blown up version of Sun Tzu.

I don't see anything wrong with this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides

Related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon

You can get almost all classics works online for free,
many are no copyright works, like here,
http://www.gutenberg.org/
You can also get various scans for free of google books,
no copyright. These are usually photographic huge pdf's,
important to know if you plan on searching.

You can also get updated translations, PDF's online, get them
now before they take down all sites, these are great for searching
whole books for key words. I have bought many books from
the pdf introduction.

There is a story, the height of Athenian Empire, total decay,
degeneracy, greed, everything you would expect, they attack
Syracuse, Syracuse sends for Spartans, who had a reputation
at checking Athenian Empire and being guarantors of Greek City
State Freedom, the Spartans send one man, JUST ONE MAN .
Syracuse was expecting an army to show up, lol !
That was the end of Athenian Empire, game over.

All it takes is one man folks . ONE MAN .

This is why TPTB ensure there are no leaders.

These games are old. And TPTB know their Classics.

We are watching this play out right now.

05-17-2012, 05:01 AM	#2
kucheravka Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 482 Senior Member	Thucydides is a tough read, lots happens, lots of details, on the wars, it is much more detailed than Herodotus, Herodotus is a much easier and enjoyable read, it covers the same wars but covers a lot of other history. Thucydides is required reading at US War College. It's all about War, Politics, Society, Tactics, Diplomacy, Allegiances, some legend is thrown in of a very significant nature verified by archeology, very important information on Dorians, you can even describe it as a blown up version of Sun Tzu. I don't see anything wrong with this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides Related http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon You can get almost all classics works online for free, many are no copyright works, like here, http://www.gutenberg.org/ You can also get various scans for free of google books, no copyright. These are usually photographic huge pdf's, important to know if you plan on searching. You can also get updated translations, PDF's online, get them now before they take down all sites, these are great for searching whole books for key words. I have bought many books from the pdf introduction. There is a story, the height of Athenian Empire, total decay, degeneracy, greed, everything you would expect, they attack Syracuse, Syracuse sends for Spartans, who had a reputation at checking Athenian Empire and being guarantors of Greek City State Freedom, the Spartans send one man, JUST ONE MAN . Syracuse was expecting an army to show up, lol ! That was the end of Athenian Empire, game over. All it takes is one man folks . ONE MAN . This is why TPTB ensure there are no leaders. These games are old. And TPTB know their Classics. We are watching this play out right now.
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