Peloponnesian War

Bibliography

The primary source for the Peloponnesian War (to 411) is Thucydides; Xenophon's Hellenica is an inferior sequel. See also G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1972); D. Kagan, The Peloponnesian War (2003): V. D. Hanson, A War like No Other (2005); J. T. Roberts, The Plague of War (2017).

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