A War Like No Other

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A War Like No Other

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Picked it up a few weeks ago. Damned fine piece of work, although a bit heavy in parts. I'd recommend it for anyone who wanted to read more about the Peloponnesian war without having to wade through their college version of Thucydides.
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My first-ever college assignment, in my 8:00 a.m. freshman Humanities class, was to read the first 250 pages of Thucydides by Wednesday. I've sort of had an aversion to that work ever since.
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some other ancient historians that are worth checking out are Polybius, Tacitus and Suetonius.....if that kind of stuff floats your boat.

and Robert Graves I, Claudius is a pretty nifty rip of Tacitus and Suetonius....and while a bit dated (I guess) the BBC version is still pretty good stuff.

and at least you didn't have to read Tacitus in greek.
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