In contrast to [the newer translation], it has a dozen meaty footnotes on every page, with a running chronology and summary glosses in the margin.
"[4]Describing the series as a whole, James Romm wrote, in the Wall Street Journal: "Beginning with 'The Landmark Thucydides,' published by the Free Press in 1996, Mr. Strassler showed his determination to leave no reader behind.
Headings kept readers oriented in time and space, as did brief summaries, running down the book's generously wide margins, of each stage of the action.
Well-curated photographs of objects and sites turned a mere encounter with the Peloponnesian War into an immersion in classical Greece.
An opening chronology laid out the events of the text in sequence, and a closing index, done in unprecedented detail, provided a precise means of finding whatever item one might be looking for.