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The History of the Peloponnesian War, read beside a living map of the Greek world.
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Θουκυδίδης Ἀθηναῖος ξυνέγραψε τὸν πόλεμον τῶν Πελοποννησίων καὶ Ἀθηναίων
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it.
The Atlas is his whole History, set on the ground it describes. Open a chapter and the map turns to its season: fleets put out along their routes, armies take the roads, cities change sides, and the fields burn where the text says they burned.
It is a book to read and a map to wander, made for one reader at a time, with no account to make and nothing to connect.
I
All eight books in Crawley's translation, 917 chapters, with the original Greek behind every one. The text sits in a column of dark glass at the map's edge. Bookmark a chapter, write your own notes between the passages, and come back to the page you left.
II
Twenty-seven years of war run on one clock. As you read, the triremes sail the lanes they sailed and the armies march the roads, each under its city's emblem. The political colours shift as allies revolt and garrisons fall, and the seasons turn the light and the crops.
III
When a chapter comes to a battle, the map plays it. The lines close on the field at Delium and Mantinea, a wing gives way and runs for the hills. In the Gulf and the Great Harbour of Syracuse the ships wheel, ram and go down, and the wreckage stays on the water.
IV
Each of 253 places, 82 people and 44 gods has its own page, written from the History and the ancient authors and cited chapter by chapter. Tap a city on the map to open it. Every citation is a door back into the text.
V
Thucydides opens by looking back, to Minos and his fleet, to Troy, to the wandering of the peoples. The Atlas follows him into the dark: the land empties, torches move along the shores, and the first walled towns rise out of the ground as he names them.
The Atlas never connects to the internet. Everything it needs is in the app.
No sign-in, no analytics, no advertising. Your notes and your place stay on your device.
Export your notes as a file and hand them to another reader, or open theirs.
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