The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides & Robert B. Strassler & Richard Crawley & Victor Davis Hanson

The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides & Robert B. Strassler & Richard Crawley & Victor Davis Hanson

Author:Thucydides & Robert B. Strassler & Richard Crawley & Victor Davis Hanson [Thucydides & Strassler, Robert B. & Crawley, Richard & Hanson, Victor Davis]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: History, Ancient, Greece, Military, Humanities
ISBN: 9780684828152
Amazon: 0684827905
Barnesnoble: 0684827905
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1996-08-05T22:00:00+00:00


BOOK SIX

The same winter the Athenians resolved to sail again to Sicily, with a greater armament than that under Laches and Eurymedon, and, if possible, to conquer the island; most of them being ignorant of its size and of the number of its inhabitants, Hellenic and barbarian, and of the fact that they were undertaking a war not much inferior to that against the Peloponnesians. [2] For the voyage round Sicily in a merchant vessel is not far short of eight days; and yet, large as the island is, there are only two miles of sea to prevent its being mainland.



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