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Jan. 1st, 2008 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickRegarding holiday conversation on the Peloponnesian War, interesting histories thereof, I note with interest that Librivox has freebie recordings of the Thucycides history of same. As I am certain that many of you are indeed interested in this so that you can have audible edification while knitting, feel free to check it out.
For those rather less on-board, the Peloponnesian War was a twenty-year war (with time off for harvests and the non-war seasons) that took place between Athens and Sparta and assorted hangers-on on both sides. Sparta won, Athens lost. (This does, sorry, spoil the ending.) Anyway, Thucydides wrote (most of) a history of the war while serving as a general on the Athenian side. Since this was before Wikipedia, he was allowed to edit his own entries, mostly, but did so with a light enough hand that his stuff is still very informative.
Because it's a book-on-.mp3, you can take it with you in the car! Out power walking! Take it to the gym! People will think you're listening to that Scooby Dogg person or perhaps Mr. Half-A-Dollar or possibly even Unbelieveably Silly And Unable To Spell, but really, you will be getting your groove thang on to the Spartans and the Athens and their relative six-pack-a-licious fighting styles. (I know for damn sure that all greeks had six packs. I saw 300. I saw Gladiator. Hell, I saw Spartacus. Six packs, the lot of them. No wonder they were hot for each other.)
For those rather less on-board, the Peloponnesian War was a twenty-year war (with time off for harvests and the non-war seasons) that took place between Athens and Sparta and assorted hangers-on on both sides. Sparta won, Athens lost. (This does, sorry, spoil the ending.) Anyway, Thucydides wrote (most of) a history of the war while serving as a general on the Athenian side. Since this was before Wikipedia, he was allowed to edit his own entries, mostly, but did so with a light enough hand that his stuff is still very informative.
Because it's a book-on-.mp3, you can take it with you in the car! Out power walking! Take it to the gym! People will think you're listening to that Scooby Dogg person or perhaps Mr. Half-A-Dollar or possibly even Unbelieveably Silly And Unable To Spell, but really, you will be getting your groove thang on to the Spartans and the Athens and their relative six-pack-a-licious fighting styles. (I know for damn sure that all greeks had six packs. I saw 300. I saw Gladiator. Hell, I saw Spartacus. Six packs, the lot of them. No wonder they were hot for each other.)
