Download or read book A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109 written by Simon Hornblower and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third and final volume of Simon Hornblower's magisterial commentary on the history of the first 20 years of the Peloponnesian War written by the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. Volume III covers the years 421-411 BC (Books 5.25 to 8.109). All Greek is translated, and there is a thematic Introduction.