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Title: The History of the Peloponnesian War

Author: Thucydides

Translator: Richard Crawley

Release Date: December, 2004 [EBook #7142]
Posting Date: May 1, 2009

Language: English

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Produced by Albert Imrie

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 S