The Peloponnesian WarThe text is that of the new and spirited translation by Walter Blanco. Jennifer Tolbert Roberts's introduction and annotations provide vital background information. Backgrounds and Contexts provides supplementary selections from Xenophon, Herodotus, Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the twentieth-century journalist, Walter Karp. Interpretations includes richly varied assessments of Thucydides. The contributors include Theodor Gomperz, Francis M. Cornford, Charles H. Chochrane, R. G. Collingwood, Albert Cook, Cynthia Farrar, Adam Parry, Glen Bowersock, Robert Gilpin, Michael Doyle, and Gregory Crane. |
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Causes of the WarThe Affair of EpidamnusThe | 14 |
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From the End of the Persian to the Beginning of | 51 |
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Acarnanians accordingly afterwards Agis Alcibiades alliance allies Ambraciots Amphipolis Argives Argos armament arms army arrived Astyochus Athenians Athens attack Attica barbarians battle began Boeotians Brasidas cavalry Chalcidians Chians Chios coast command Corcyra Corcyræans Corinth Corinthians dæmon dæmonians danger Decelea defeated Demosthenes Eleans enemy engaged envoys Epipolæ Euboea expedition fear fight fleet force fortified friends galleys garrison Gylippus harbour heavy infantry Hellas Hellenes honour hundred inhabitants invaded Ionians island joined king Lace Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land light troops Mantineans marched Meanwhile the Athenians Megara Megarians Miletus Mitylenians Naupactus Nicias Nisæa once party peace Peloponnese Peloponnesians Perdiccas persuaded Platæans present Pylos refused rest retreat returned revolt round sailed Samos sent ships Sicels Sicily side Sitalces summer Syracusans Syracuse territory Thebans thought Thrace Thracian Thucydides Tissaphernes took town treaty trophy truce vessels victory wall winter wished yourselves