History of the Peloponnesian War
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1954
Language: eng
Translated from: grc
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780140440393
Copyright date: 1954
First sentence: Thucydides the Athenian wrote the history of the war fought between Athens and Sparta, Beginning the account at the very outbreak of the war, in the belief that it was going to be a great war and more worth writing about than any of those which had taken place in the past.
Table of contents: label: INTRODUCTION by M. I. Finley
title: 9; label: TRANSLATOR'S NOTE by Rex Warner
title: 33; label: Book I; label: Introduction
title: 35; label: The Dispute over Epidamnus
title: 49; label: The Dispute over Corcyra
title: 53; label: The Dispute over Potidaea
title: 68; label: The Debate at Sparta and Declaration of War
title: 72; label: The Pentecontaetia
title: 87; label: The Allied Congress at Sparta
title: 103; label: The Stories of Pausanias and Themistocles
title: 108; label: The Spartan Ultimatum and Pericles' Reply
title: 118; label: Book II; label: Outbreak of War
title: 124; label: The First Year of the War
title: 136; label: Pericles' Funeral Oration
title: 143; label: The Plague
title: 151; label: The Policy of Peracles
title: 156; label: The Fall of Potidaea
title: 165; label: The Siege of Plataea
title: 168; label: Victories of Phormio
title: 173; label: Thrace and Macedonia
title: 187; label: Book III; label: Revolt of Mytilene
title: 194; label: The Mytilenian Debate
title: 212; label: The End of Plataea
title: 223; label: Civil War in Corcyra
title: 236; label: Operations in Cicily and Greece
title: 245; label: End of Sixth Year of War
title: 255; label: Book IV; label: Athenian Success at Pylos
title: 265; label: Final Victory at Pylos
title: 278; label: Further Athenian Successes
title: 290; label: Peace in Cicily
title: 298; label: Fighting at Megara
title: 303; label: Brasidas in Thrace
title: 310; label: Athenian Defeat at Delium
title: 318; label: Brasidas Captures Amphipolis
title: 326; label: Armistice Between Athens and Sparta
title: 334; label: End of Ninth Year of War
title: 339; label: Book V; label: Battle of Amphipolis
title: 348; label: Peace of Nicias
title: 356; label: Negotiations with Argos
title: 363; label: Alliance Between Athens and Argos
title: 373; label: Campaigns in the Peloponnese
title: 382; label: Battle of Mantinea
title: 388; label: The Melian Dialog
title: 400; label: Book VI; label: Sicilian Antiquities
title: 409; label: Launching of the Cicilian Expedition
title: 414; label: The Debate at Syracuse
title: 430; label: The Athenians Arrive in Sicily
title: 437; label: The Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton
title: 442; label: Recall of Alcibiades
title: 447; label: Athenian Victory Before Syracuse
title: 449; label: The Debate at Camarina
title: 455; label: Alcibiades in Sparta
title: 465; label: More Athenian Success in Syracuse
title: 471; label: Book VII; label: Gylippus Arrives in Syracuse
title: 478; label: Letter to Nicias
title: 483; label: Fortification of Decelea
title: 488; label: Athenian Defeat in the Great Harbour
title: 496; label: Athenian Defeat at Epipolae
title: 503; label: Syracusean Victory at Sea
title: 516; label: Destruction of the Athenian Expedition
title: 525; label: Book VIII; label: Alarm at Athens
title: 538; label: Beginning of Persian Intervention
title: 541; label: The Oligarchic Coup
title: 562; label: Athenian Victory at Cynossema
title: 599; label: Appendices
title: 607; label: Bibliography
title: 621; label: Maps
title: 625; label: Index
title: 633