The Peloponnesian War

The Unabridged Crawley Translation, Introduction by Terry Wick

INTRODUCTION

vii

(17)

NOTE ON REVISION

xxiv

(1)

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

xxv

(3)

MAPS

xxviii

(3)

TABLE OF WAR YEARS

xxxi

THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

BOOK I

1

(86)

1-23 The State of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War

1

(13)

24-65 Causes of the War--The Affair of Epidamnus--The Affair of Potidaea

14

(23)

66-88 Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon

37

(14)

89-117 From the End of the Persian to the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War--The Progress from Supremacy to Empire

51

(15)

118-146 Second Congress at Lacedaemon--Preparations for War and Diplomatic Skirmishes--Cylon--Pausanias--Themistocles

66

(21)

BOOK II

87

(67)

1-46 Beginning of the Peloponnesian War--First Invasion of Attica--Funeral Oration of Pericles

87

(27)

47-70 Second Year of the War--The Plague of Athens--Position and Policy of Pericles--Fall of Potidaea

114

(16)

71-103 Third Year of the War--Investment of Plataea--Naval Victories of Phormio--Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under Sitalces

130

(24)

BOOK III

154

(66)

1-50 Fourth and Fifth Years of the War--Revolt of Mitylene

154

(27)

51-86 Fifth Year of the War--Trial and Execution of the Plataeans--Corcyraean Revolution

181

(21)

87-116 Sixth Year of the War--Campaigns of Demosthenes in Western Greece--Ruin of Ambracia

202

(18)

BOOK IV

220

(78)

1-41 Seventh Year of the War--Occupation of Pylos--Surrender of the Spartan Army on Sphacteria

220

(24)

42-74 Seventh and Eighth Years of the War--End of Corcyraean Revolution--Peace of Gela--Capture of Nisaea

244

(18)

75-135 Eighth and Ninth Years of the War--Invasion of Boeotia--Fall of Amphipolis--Brilliant Successes of Brasidas

262

(36)

BOOK V

298

(60)

1-24 Tenth Year of the War--Deaths of Cleon and Brasidas--Peace of Nicias

298

(15)

25-83 Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese--League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians--Battle of Mantinea and Breaking up of the League

313

(36)

84-116 Sixteenth Year of the War--The Melian Conference--Fate of Melos

349

(9)

BOOK VI

358

(66)

1-32 Seventeenth Year of the War--The Sicilian Campaign--Affair of the Hermae--Departure of the Expedition

358

(20)

32-61 Seventeenth Year of the War--Parties at Syracuse--Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton--Disgrace of Alcibiades

378

(18)

62-105 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the War--Inaction of the Athenian Army--Alcibiades at Sparta--Investment of Syracuse

396

(28)

BOOK VII

424

(58)

1-41 Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the War--Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse--Fortification of Decelea--Successes of the Syracusans

424

(25)

42-49 Nineteenth Year of the War--Arrival of Demosthenes--Defeat of the Athenians at Epipolae--Folly and Obstinacy of Nicias

449

(6)

50-87 Nineteenth Year of the War--Battles in the Great Harbour--Retreat and Annihilation of the Athenian Army

455

(27)

BOOK VIII

482

(67)

1-43 Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the War--Revolt of Ionia--Intervention of Persia--The War in Ionia

482

(23)

44-79 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

505

(23)

80-109 Twenty-first Year of the War--Recall of Alcibiades to Samos--Revolt of Euboea and Downfall of the Four Hundred--Battle of Cynossema

528

(21)

ANNOTATED INDEX

549

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