Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A Very Close Translation

This is the translation that corresponds most closely to Thucydides' notoriously difficult Greek. Certain sections, like Pericles' funeral oration in book II are in some ways untranslatable since any single translation obscures ambiguities that are present in the original text. However, the Landmark Thucydides comes the closest to the author's original language. Another nice thing about this edition is that it is heavily illustrated and annotated. These features make Thucydides' text concrete in an unusual way and will be particularly useful to the casual reader who is trying to get a broad picture of the events of the Peloponnesian war. This is the finest English language edition of Thucydides that I have seen.