Rhodes's brief commentary, interspersed between the selections, is sober and judicious, extracting conclusions, pointing out contradictions in the evidence, and indicating points of uncertainty.... This is a book that classicists will profit from reading and that can be warmly recommended to graduate students. -- David Kovacs, University of Virginia.
This is a great academic resource, a collection of ancient sources on almost every aspect of life that was put down in writing. We mostly referenced the chapters on Sparta and Athens during our analysis of the Peloponnesian War in the Strategy and War course.