[Gutenberg 9074] • Stories from Thucydides

Excerpt from Stories From Thucydides

N a former volume we have traced the course I of events which ended in the complete over throw of Xerxes and his great army. Our present task is to describe the chief incidents in the cruel and devastating war, commonly known as the Peloponnesian War, which lasted for twenty-seven years, and finally broke up the Athenian Empire. The cause of that war was the env and hatred excited in the other states of Greece by t e power and greatness of Athens and in order to make our story intelligible we must indicate briefly the steps by which she rose to that dangerous eminence, and drew u n herself the armed ho-: ility of half the Greek wor d.

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