History of the Peloponnesian War
(1972)
By:
Thucydides
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
938.05/THUCYDIDES
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Harmondsworth, England ; Baltimore, MD. : Penguin Books, [1972]
©1972
©1972
EDITION
Revised edition
DESCRIPTION
648 pages : maps ; 19 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780140440393, 0140440399, 9780140440393, 0140440399
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
This translation first published: 1954
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens an Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim that his writing was designed to last forever. Thucydides himself (c-460-400 B.C.) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict. A translation of Thucydides' history of the wars between Athens and Sparta with introduction, notes, bibliography, and maps
CONTENTS
Introduction --
Dispute over Epidamus --
Dispute over Corcyra --
Dispute over Potidea --
Debate at Sparta and declaration of war --
Pentevontaetia --
Allied Congress at Sparts --
Stories of Pausnias and Themistocles --
The Spartan ulttimatum and Pericles reply --
Outbreak of War --
First year of the War --
Pericles' Funeral oration --
Plague --
Policy of Pericles --
Fall of Potidaea --
Siege of Plataea --
Victories of Phormio --
Thrace and Macedonia --
Revolt of Mytilene --
Mytilenian debate --
End of Plateea --
Civil War in Corcyra --
Operations in Sicily and Greece --
End of sixth year of war --
Athenian success at Pylos --
Further Athenian succcesses --
Peace in Sicily --
Fighting at Megara --
Brasidas in Thrace --
Athenian defeat at delium --
Brasidas captures Amphipolis --
Armistice between Athens and Sparta --
End of the Ninth year of war --
Book of Amphipolis --
Peace of Nicias --
Negotiations with Argos --
Alliance between Athens and Argos --
Campaigns in the Peloponnese --
Battle of Mantinea --
Melian Dialogue --
Sicilian antiquities --
Launching of the Sicilian expedition --
Debate at Syracuse --
Athenians arrive in Sicily --
Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton --
Recall of Alcibiades --
Arhenian victory before Syracuse ---
Debate at Camarina --
Alcibiades in Sparta --
More Athenian successes at Syracuse --
Gylippus in Syracuse --
Letter of Nicias --
Fortification of Decelea --
Athenian defeat in the Great Harbour --
Athenian defeat at Epipolae --
Syracusian victory at Sea --
Destruction of the Athenian expedition --
Alarm at Athens --
Beginning of Persian intervention --
Oligarchic coup --
Athenian victory of Cynossema --