Thucydides, — The Peloponnesian war.

Transl. M. Hammond. The Peloponnesian War reshaped the ancient Greek world. On the level of international relations, Athens, the strongest city-state in Greece prior to the war's beginning, was reduced to a state of near-complete subjection, while Sparta became established as the leading power of Greece. The economic costs of the war were felt all across Greece: poverty became widespread in the Peloponnese, while Athens was completely devastated and never regained its pre-war prosperity.[2][3] The war also wrought subtler changes to Greek society: the conflict between democratic Athens and oligarchic Sparta. l Oxford University Press . Oxford 2009. Pb. 708 pp. With index and maps. Good condition.