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    history · 5th century BCE · 3 crossings

    History of the Peloponnesian War

    ἹστορίαιHistoriai

    Thucydides, in Greek

    The war that broke the Greek world, written to be useful forever. Its English chain begins with Thomas Hobbes, who translated it as a warning.

    The chain

    c. 410 BCE–400 BCE Greek original

    written by Thucydides

    1. c. 1448–1452 Greek Latin translation attested

      translated by Lorenzo Valla commissioned by Pope Nicholas V in Rome

      Commissioned for the papal library project. For a century Europe's Thucydides was Valla's Latin; the first English (1550) was made from a French version of it, at third hand from the Greek.

    2. 1629 Greek English translation attested

      translated by Thomas Hobbes in London

      The first English made directly from the Greek. Hobbes said he translated 'the most politic historiographer that ever writ' so his countrymen could see what democracies do in long wars; Leviathan was the sequel.

    3. 1848–1849 Greek English translation attested

      translated by Henry Dale in London

      The literal Bohn's Library version of the Rev. Henry Dale, 1848-49; the text carried in this library through the Perseus First1KGreek encoding of the 1851-52 printing.