12 Best nonfiction books like History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Moses I. Finley, Rex Warner

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History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo…

"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

If you liked the nonfiction plot in History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Moses I. Finley, Rex Warner , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • ancient
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • greece
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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2. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • classics
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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3. The Conquest of Gaul

By: S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs. Be… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • war
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Twelve Caesars

By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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5. The Early History of Rome (The History of Rome, #1-5)

By: Livy , Aubrey de Sélincourt , Robert Maxwell Ogilvie , None

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first … read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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6. Thucydides: The Reinvention of History

By: Donald Kagan

4.00

Format: None pages,

read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • war
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • greece
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7. The Rise of the Roman Empire

By: Polybius , Ian Scott-Kilvert , None , F.W. Walbank

4.18

Format: 306 pages,

Polybius, himself a Greek and an active contemporary participant in political relations with Rome, … read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • ancient
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Persian Expedition

By: Xenophon , Rex Warner , None , George Cawkwell

4.18

Format: None pages,

In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • ancient history
  • ancient
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9. The Annals of Imperial Rome

By: Michael Grant , Tacitus

4.33

Format: 25 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In "The Annals of Imperial Rome", his last and greatest work, Tacitus (AD c.55-c.117) covers the pe… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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10. A History of My Times

By: Xenophon , Rex Warner , George Cawkwell

3.72

Format: 395 pages,

Thucydides' magisterial history told of the unhappy conflict of Greeks against the Greeks in the Pe… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • ancient
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • greece
Cover of Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) by Aeschylus, Patricia E. Easterling, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, None

11. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • classics
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

12. The Civil War

By: Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his … read more

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13. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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  • ancient
  • classics
"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

14. The Campaigns of Alexander

By: Aubrey de Sélincourt , Arrian , None

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'Although written over four hundred y… read more

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15. The Aeneid

By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more

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16. On War

By: Michael Eliot Howard , Carl von Clausewitz , Peter Paret

3.75

Format: None pages,

Carl von Clausewitz's On Warhas been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great boo… read more

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17. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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  • history
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  • greece
"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

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18. History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • philosophy
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
  • greece
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

19. Politics

By: Aristotle

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more

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20. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

21. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

(1939 translation) read more

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15 Best classics books like History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Moses I. Finley, Rex Warner

Transform Your Habits

The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Conquest of Gaul

S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Twelve Caesars

Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

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9 must-read classics books like The Persian Expedition by Xenophon, Rex Warner, George Cawkwell

Transform Your Habits

The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

On Sparta

Plutarch , Christopher Pelling , Richard J.A. Talbert

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Storm of Steel

Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Conquest of Gaul

S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

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