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The History of the Peloponnesian War

By Thucydides, 431 BC.

Translated by Richard Crawley.

Credits: Gutenberg Project.

BOOK I

CHAPTER I
The state of Greece from the earliest Times to the
Commencement of the Peloponnesian War

CHAPTER II
Causes of the War - The Affair of Epidamnus -
The Affair of Potidaea

CHAPTER III
Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at
Lacedaemon

CHAPTER IV
From the End of the Persian to the Beginning of
the Peloponnesian War - The Progress from
Supremacy to Empire

CHAPTER V
Second Congress at Lacedaemon - Preparations for
War and Diplomatic Skirmishes - Cylon -
Pausanias - Themistocles


BOOK II

CHAPTER VI
Beginning of the Peloponnesian War - First
Invasion of Attica - Funeral Oration of Pericles

CHAPTER VII
Second Year of the War - The Plague of Athens -
Position and Policy of Pericles - Fall of Potidaea

CHAPTER VIII
Third Year of the War - Investment of Plataea -
Naval Victories of Phormio - Thracian Irruption
into Macedonia under Sitalces



BOOK III


CHAPTER IX
Fourth and Fifth Years of the War - Revolt of
Mitylene

CHAPTER X
Fifth Year of the War - Trial and Execution of the
Plataeans - Corcyraean Revolution

CHAPTER XI
Sixth Year of the War - Campaigns of Demosthenes
in Western Greece - Ruin of Ambracia


BOOK IV

CHAPTER XII
Seventh Year of the War - Occupation of pylos -
Surrender of the Spartan Army in Sphacteria

CHAPTER XIII
Seventh and Eighth Years of the War - End of
Corcyraean Revolution - Peace of Gela -
Capture of Nisaea

CHAPTER XIV
Eighth and Ninth Years of the War - Invasion of
Boeotia - Fall of Amphipolis - Brilliant Successes
of Brasidas


BOOK V

CHAPTER XV
Tenth Year of the War - Death of Cleon and
Brasidas - Peace of Nicias

CHAPTER XVI
Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese - League
of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and
Athenians - Battle of Mantinea and breaking up of
the League

CHAPTER XVII
Sixteenth Year of the War - The Melian
Conference - Fate of Melos


BOOK VI

CHAPTER XVIII
Seventeenth Year of the War - The Sicilian
Campaign - Affair of the Hermae - Departure of the
Expedition

CHAPTER XIX
Seventeenth Year of the War - Parties at Syracuse -
Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton -
Disgrace of Alcibiades

CHAPTER XX
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the War -
Inaction of the Athenian Army - Alcibiades at
Sparta -Investment of Syracuse


BOOK VII

CHAPTER XXI
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the War -
Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse - Fortification
of Decelea - Successes of the Syracusans

CHAPTER XXII
Nineteenth Year of the War - Arrival of
Demosthenes - Defeat of the Athenians at Epipolae -
Folly and Obstinacy of Nicias

CHAPTER XXIII
Nineteenth Year of the War - Battles in the Great
Harbour - Retreat and Annihilation of the
Athenian Army


BOOK VIII

CHAPTER XXIV
Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the War -
Revolt of Ionia - Intervention of Persia - The
War in Ionia

CHAPTER XXV
Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of the War -
Intrigues of Alcibiades - Withdrawal of the
Persian Subsidies - Oligarchical Coup d'Etat
at Athens - Patriotism of the Army at Samos

CHAPTER XXVI
Twenty first Year of the War - Recall of
Alcibiades to Samos - Revolt of Euboea and
Downfall of the Four Hundred - Battle of Cynossema
 

 

 

 

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