The Archidamian War

" The Archidamian War remains sober, judicious, and comprehensive. There is nothing else like it available in English―certainly nothing that takes all the modern scholarship into account.... But perhaps the most valuable achievement of the book is its carefully reasoned demolition of Thucydides's view―warmly embraced by too many scholars―that Pericles's war strategy was justifiable." — Peter Green ― Times Literary Supplement This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Pelo