The Peloponnesian War"Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For every reason, the current availability of this great work is a boon."—Joseph Cropsey, University of Chicago |
Contents
THE FIRST BOOK | 1 |
THE SECOND BOOK | 89 |
THE THIRD BOOK | 157 |
THE FOURTH BOOK | 229 |
THE FIFTH BOOK | 311 |
THE SIXTH BOOK | 375 |
THE SEVENTH BOOK | 443 |
THE EIGHTH BOOK | 503 |
Of the Life and History of Thucydides | 569 |
Index | 587 |
Common terms and phrases
Acarnanians afterwards Alcibiades ambassadors Ambraciotes amongst Amphipolis Argives Argos arms army assault Astyochus Athe Athenians Athens Attica barbarians battle Boeotians Brasidas cause Chalcideans charge Chians Chios command confederates Corcyra Corcyraeans Corinth Corinthians daemonians danger Demosthenes desired dominion Eleians enemy Euboea fear fight fleet forces fortified fought galleys garrison gotten greatest Grecians Greece Greek Gylippus hands hath haven Hobbes honour horsemen hundred invade island king Lacedae Lacedaemon Lacedaemonians land league lest liberty likewise Mantineans meantime Megara Megareans Miletus monians Mytilenaeans Naupactus navy nians Nicias Nisaea ourselves peace Peiraeus Peloponnesians Peloponnesus Perdiccas Plataeans Potidaea present Pylus rest revolt sail Samos sedition sent Sicily side Sitalces slain slew soldiers spake Sparta stayed Syracuse Syracusians temple territory Thebans thence things thither thought Thrace Thucydides Tissaphernes took town trophy truce unto victory wall whatsoever wherein whereof whilst whole withal