CONTENTS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
