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Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre written by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus. Interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes secretary to ye late Earle of Deuonshire

Typology: Translation | Language: English | Place of publication: London | Publisher: Henry Seile | Year: 1629

Greek Text: no

Content: Complete Work

Hobbes' translation of Thuc. 2.47-54 (Athens' Plague) was reprinted by Thomas Sprat in 1665 – see Sprat 1665. Hobbes' complete translation was revised and republished with a new introduction by David Grene in 1959 and again in 1989. A further reprint appeared in 1975, edited by Richard Schlatter, who also provided a new introduction – see Schlatter 1975.

Text (1634 ed.)

Related editions:

• The Plague of Athens which happened in the year of the Peloponesian warre. First described in Greek by Thucidides, then in Latin by Lucretius. Now attempted in English by Tho. Sprat
• Περικλέους λόγος ἐπιτάφιος ὑπο θουκυδίδου συγγραφείς. — The funeral Oration of Pericles translated out of Thucydides by Thomas Hobbes
• Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. The Thomas Hobbes Translation Edited by David Grene, with an Introduction by Bertrand de Jouvenel
• Hobbes's Thucydides. Edited, and with an Introduction, by Richard Schlatter
• The Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. The Complete Hobbes Translation. With Notes and a New Introduction by David Grene