The Archidamian War"The Archidamian War remains sober, judicious, and comprehensive. There is nothing else like it available in Englishcertainly 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 viewwarmly embraced by too many scholarsthat Pericles's war strategy was justifiable." Peter Green Times Literary Supplement This book, the second volume in