It also ended in mid sentence and some speculate he may have been killed while writing it.
Spare me the wise crack answers from the dumbazzes
2006-07-13 03:21:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Its Thucydides... his "History Of the Peloponnesian War" does end kinda abruptly... with Tissaphernes going to Ephesmus and offering a sacrifice to Artemis
2006-07-13 05:21:05 · answer #1 · answered by TAR 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chief Accounts Officer
2006-07-13 10:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What time period was it? A lot of people wrote accounts while the war was happening. And "ancient war" might mean from the first recorded battle in 2000 BC to 476 AD.
2006-07-13 11:33:11 · answer #3 · answered by im_smart 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure but you might want to check out Thucydides or Xenophon for some good accounts of ancient warfare.
2006-07-13 11:04:20 · answer #4 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't Thucydides, Herodatus, or Xenephon because they all survived their war reporting. Xenephon gives a good acount of the death of Socrates later in his life.
2006-07-13 11:34:58 · answer #5 · answered by mjtpopus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋