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History of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides ; translated by Rex Warner, with an introduction and notes by M. I. Finley. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: Harmondsworth, England; Baltimore, Maryland : Penguin Books, [(c)1972.Edition: Revised editionDescription: 648 pages : maps ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0140440399
  • 9780140440393
Uniform titles:
  • History of the Peloponnesian War. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DF229.T483.H578 1972
  • DF229.T5.W283.H578 1972
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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 ; he Oligarchic coup ; Athenian victory of Cynossema.
Summary: 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.
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This translation first published: 1954.

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 ; he Oligarchic coup ; Athenian victory of Cynossema.

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. Link to source of summary

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