Badian, E. From Plataea to Potidaea: Studies in the History and Historiography of the Pentecontaetia. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. First Edition. ISBN: 9780801844317. [1812]
Orange cloth, 6 x 9 1/4 inches, xii., 264 clean pp., extensive notes in ink on the rear end papers. Dust jacket is intact, no chips, spine panel sunned, in a clear protective wrapper. Very good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover.
"From the Greek victory over Persian forces on the field of Plataea to the Athenian blockade of the rebel city of Potidaea key events in the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, respectively the half-century of Greek history known as the pentecontaetia is an era for which sources are few and interpretation is controversial. Historian E. Badian brings together six essays one new and five revised for this edition that shed new light on this key period." - publisher.