A particularly good English language edition of Thucydides is the revised Richard Crowley translation, edited by Robert B. Strassler, The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (New York: The Free Press 1996) [DF229 .T55C7 1996]. It contains extensive appendices on various aspects of Athens and Sparta, written by Alan Boegehold, Paul Cartledge, Robert B. Strassler, Victor Davis Hanson, Nicolle Hirschfeld, William F. Wyatt, Gregory Crane, and Thomas R. Martin. There are numerous maps throughout the text.