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. |
Contents
Causes of the WarThe Affair of EpidamnusThe | 14 |
Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy | 37 |
BOOK II | 87 |
Copyright | |
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Acarnanians accordingly afterwards Alcibiades alliance allies Ambraciots Amphipolis Argives Argos armament army arrived Astyochus Athenians Athens attack Attica barbarians battle began Bœotians Brasidas cavalry Chalcidians Chians Chios citizens Cnemus coast command Corcyra Corcyræans Corinth Corinthians dæmon dæmonians danger defeated Demosthenes Eleans enemy engaged envoys Eubœa expedition fear fight fleet force fortified galleys garrison Gylippus harbour heavy infantry Hellas Hellenes honour hundred inhabitants invaded island joined king Lace Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land Mantineans marched Meanwhile the Athenians Mede Megara Megarians Miletus Mitylenians Naupactus neighbours Nicias Nisæa once party Pausanias peace Peloponnese Peloponnesians Perdiccas persuaded Phormio Piræus Platæans Potidæa present Pylos ravaged rest retreat returned revolt round sailed Samos sent Sicels Sicily side Sitalces summer Syracusans Syracuse territory Thebans thought Thrace Thracian Thucydides Tissaphernes took town treaty troops trophy truce vessels victory wall winter wished yourselves