THUCYDIDES; HOBBES, Thomas (translator).
The History of the Grecian War:
The History of the Grecian War:
in eight books. Written by Thucydides. Faithfully translated from the original by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury. With maps describing the country.
Stock Code 121862
London, Printed by B. Motte et al., 1723.
final edition of the Hobbes translation
The third and final edition of Hobbes' English-language translation of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), fought between the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, and the Delian League of Athens.'Hobbes (1588-1679) was forty when he completed this translation [the first in English directly from the Greek] but held it back for some time, doubting whether he would get readers enough, but published it eventually, deciding to be content with "the few and better sort". Forty years later, in Vita Carmine Expressa, he said that he had written it so that his contemporaries might learn from the fate of Athenian democracy how much wiser one man is than the mass of men' (MacDonald & Hargreaves).
The text is illustrated with engraved plates and folding maps, including an annotated map of Ancient Greece by Hobbes himself.
Third edition, corrected and amended; 2 vols; 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); engraved frontispiece, 3 further engraved plates (2 folding), and 2 folding engraved maps, woodcut head and tail pieces, slightly toned with occasional spotting, 2P2-2P4 trimmed at fore-edge but not affecting text; contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked hinges reinforced, a very good, sound copy; [100], 403, [1]; [3], 406-732, [20]pp.
ESTC T130569; MacDonald & Hargreaves 5.
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