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> With Permission to CONNOP THIRLWALL Historian of Greece This Translation of the Work of His Great Predecessor is Respectfully Inscribed by -The Translator-
CONTENTS
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
The state of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian WarCHAPTER II
Causes of the War - The Affair of Epidamnus - The Affair of PotidaeaCHAPTER III
Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at LacedaemonCHAPTER IV
From the End of the Persian to the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War - The Progress from Supremacy to EmpireCHAPTER V
Second Congress at Lacedaemon - Preparations for War and Diplomatic Skirmishes - Cylon - Pausanias - ThemistoclesBOOK II
CHAPTER VI
Beginning of the Peloponnesian War - First Invasion of Attica - Funeral Oration of PericlesCHAPTER VII
Second Year of the War - The Plague of Athens - Position and Policy of Pericles - Fall of PotidaeaCHAPTER VIII
Third Year of the War - Investment of Plataea - Naval Victories of Phormio - Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under SitalcesBOOK III