The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
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Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.
Book II.The State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War1II.Causes of the War--The Affair of Epidamnus--The Affair of Potidaea11III.Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon28IV.From the end of the Persian to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War--The Progress from Supremacy to Empire39V.Second Congress at Lacedaemon--Preparations for War and Diplomatic Skirmishes--Cylon--Pausanias--Themistocles50Book IIVI.Beginning of the Peloponnesian War--First Invasion of Attica--Funeral Oration of Pericles67VII.Second Year of the War--The Plague of Athens--Position and Policy of Pericles--Fall of Potidaea87VIII.Third Year of the War--Investment of Plataea--Naval Victories of Phormio--Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under Sitalces99Book IIIIX.Fourth and Fifth Years of the War--Revolt of Mitylene119X.Fifth Year of the War--Trial and Execution of the Plataeans--Corcyraean Revolution140XI.Sixth Year of the War--Campaigns of Demosthenes in Western Greece--Ruin of Ambracia155Book IVXII.Seventh Year of the War--Occupation of Pylos--Surrender of the Spartan Army in Sphacteria169XIII.Seventh and Eighth Years of the War--End of Corcyraean Revolution--Peace of Gela--Capture of Nisaea187XIV.Eighth and Ninth Years of the War--Invasion of Boeotia--Fall of Amphipolis--Brilliant Successes of Brasidas200Book VXV.Tenth Year of the War--Death of Cleon and Brasidas--Peace of Nicias229XVI.Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese--League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians--Battle of Mantinea and Breaking up of the League240XVII.Sixteenth Year of the War--The Melian Conference--Fate of Melos267Book VIXVIII.Seventeenth Year of the War--The Sicilian Campaign--Affair of the Hermae--Departure of the Expedition275XIX.Seventeenth Year of the War--Parties at Syracuse--Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton--Disgrace of Alcibiades290XX.Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the War--Inaction of the Athenian Army--Alcibiades at Sparta--Investment of Syracuse303Book VIIXXI.Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the War--Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse--Fortification of Decelea--Successes of the Syracusans325XXII.Nineteenth Year of the War--Arrival of Demosthenes--Defeat of the Athenians at Epipolae--Folly and Obstinacy of Nicias344XXIII.Nineteenth Year of the War--Battles in the Great Harbour--Retreat and Annihilation of the Athenian Army349Book VIIIXXIV.Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the War--Revolt of Ionia--Intervention of Persia--The War in Ionia369XXV.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 Samos387XXVI.Twenty-first Year of the War--Recall of Alcibiades to Samos--Revolt of Euboea and Downfall of the Four Hundred--Battle of Cynossema403Maps419
