History of the Peloponnesian War

History of the Peloponnesian War

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Title: The History of the Peloponnesian War
Author: Thucydides translated by Richard Crawley
Release Date: December, 2004 [EBook #7142] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on March 15, 2003]
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THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR by Thucydides 431 BC
translated by Richard Crawley

With Permission to CONNOP THIRLWALL Historian of Greece This Translation of the Work of His Great Predecessor is Respectfully Inscribed by -The Translator-

CONTENTS
BOOK I


CHAPTER I
The state of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War


CHAPTER II
Causes of the War - The Affair of Epidamnus - The Affair of Potidaea


CHAPTER III
Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon


CHAPTER IV
From the End of the Persian to the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War - The Progress from Supremacy to Empire


CHAPTER V
Second Congress at Lacedaemon - Preparations for War and Diplomatic Skirmishes - Cylon - Pausanias - Themistocles
BOOK II


CHAPTER VI
Beginning of the Peloponnesian War - First Invasion of Attica - Funeral Oration of Pericles


CHAPTER VII
Second Year of the War - The Plague of Athens - Position and Policy of Pericles - Fall of Potidaea


CHAPTER VIII
Third Year of the War - Investment of Plataea - Naval Victories of Phormio - Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under Sitalces
BOOK III


CHAPTER IX
Fourth and Fifth Years of the War - Revolt of Mitylene


CHAPTER X
Fifth Year of the War - Trial and Execution of the Plataeans - Corcyraean Revolution


CHAPTER XI
Sixth Year of the War - Campaigns of Demosthenes in Western Greece - Ruin of Ambracia
BOOK IV


CHAPTER XII
Seventh Year of the War - Occupation of pylos - Surrender of the Spartan Army in Sphacteria


CHAPTER XIII
Seventh and Eighth Years of the War - End of Corcyraean Revolution - Peace of Gela - Capture of Nisaea


CHAPTER XIV
Eighth and Ninth Years of the War - Invasion of Boeotia - Fall of Amphipolis - Brilliant Successes of Brasidas
BOOK V


CHAPTER XV
Tenth Year of the War - Death of Cleon and Brasidas - Peace of Nicias


CHAPTER XVI
Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese - League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians - Battle of Mantinea and breaking up of the League


CHAPTER XVII
Sixteenth Year of the War - The Melian Conference - Fate of Melos
BOOK VI


CHAPTER XVIII
Seventeenth Year of the War - The Sicilian Campaign - Affair of the Hermae - Departure of the Expedition


CHAPTER XIX
Seventeenth Year of the War - Parties at Syracuse - Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton - Disgrace of Alcibiades


CHAPTER XX
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the War - Inaction of the Athenian Army - Alcibiades at Sparta -Investment of Syracuse
BOOK VII


CHAPTER XXI
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the War - Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse - Fortification of Decelea - Successes of the Syracusans


CHAPTER XXII
Nineteenth Year of the War - Arrival of Demosthenes - Defeat of the Athenians at Epipolae - Folly and Obstinacy of Nicias


CHAPTER XXIII
Nineteenth Year of the War - Battles in the Great Harbour - Retreat and Annihilation of the Athenian Army
BOOK VIII


CHAPTER XXIV
Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the War - Revolt of Ionia - Intervention of Persia - The War in Ionia


CHAPTER XXV
Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of the War - Intrigues of Alcibiades - Withdrawal of the Persian Subsidies - Oligarchical Coup d'Etat at Athens - Patriotism of the Army at Samos


CHAPTER XXVI
Twenty first Year of the War - Recall of Alcibiades to Samos - Revolt of Euboea and Downfall of the Four Hundred - Battle of Cynossema

BOOK I


CHAPTER I
The State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War 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. This belief was not without its grounds. The preparations of