How long does it take to read The History of the Peloponnesian War, Translated from the Greek of Thucydides. ... By William Smith, ..?
Thucydides, John J. Owen, Thucidides
The History of the Peloponnesian War, Translated from the Greek of Thucydides. ... By William Smith, .. by Thucydides, John J. Owen, Thucidides takes about 11 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 15 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1753. 614 pages, about 168,850 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A history of the war between Athens and Sparta, along with both of their allies and colonies. The author was an Athenian citizen who tried not to take sides in his recording of events and avoided second hand stories as well as attributions of events to divine providence or fate. His writing is sometimes considered dry and dense compared to other ancient Greek historians of his time, and he has been called "the first modern historian" in contrast to historians such as Herodotus who came before him but were less factually rigorous.
Subjects: History, Historia, Grecia
