The title of the book really gives it away. It would have taken even longer had it not been for a very accessible translation and the help of the introduction. It took me several months to work through the 8 books. One cannot begin a review without commenting on its sheer length. This was the one and only translation I picked up. Whether it is the most faithful translation, I cannot tell. As far as making the ancient Greek intelligible in modern English, he did a splendid job.
The translation I read was that of Rex Warner. There is a distinct change in tone however, between the two, with Thucydides being far more focused on his task in hand, whereas Herodotus wrote about pretty much anything that took his fancy. Having battled my way through Herodotus’ Histories last year, Thucydides seemed like the natural follow-on as the period he writes about takes place shortly after the period at which Herodotus stops. In my ongoing fight against ignorance, I once again return to ancient history.
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