The Peloponnesian War - Book Review

Parameters, Spring, 2004 by Martin L. Cook

Donald Kagan has provided us with a masterful single-volume history of the Peloponnesian War--one every student of the conflict will find invaluable. But in the end, as I'm sure he'd agree, it is an invaluable aid to understanding a conflict that gains its perennial value through the mind and vision of Thucydides himself. No accurate telling of the facts of the conflict can ever hope to capture the grandeur of Thucydides' insight into the human and moral meaning of those events.

Reviewed by Dr. Martin L. Cook, Professor of Philosophy, US Air Force Academy.