431 BC

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Nonfiction · Military history

History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

431 BC · 713 pages

Exiled after losing a city, Thucydides wrote the war that ruined Athens, explaining it by fear and self-interest, not the gods. At Melos his Athenians say the strong do what they can.

★ 8.2

Fiction · Tragedy

Medea

Euripides

431 BC · 208 pages

Medea gave up her country and killed for Jason, and now he is marrying a princess. Euripides lets her argue her case so completely that her revenge arrives with the force of logic.

★ 7.5