Contents
CHAPTER I—THE CAUSE OF THE WAR 8
§ 1. The strength of the rivals 22
§ 2. Pericles’ “strategy of exhaustion” 30
§ 3. The criticism of Pericles’ strategy 33
§ 4. The price of the strategy: Plataea 44
§ 5. The greatness of Pericles 51
CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNINGS OF THE WAR AT SEA 55
§ 1. Strategy: the tasks for Athens’ fleet 55
§ 2. Tactics: the handling of the ships 58
§ 5. The Athenian naval predominance 73
CHAPTER IV—THE CAMPAIGNS IN THE NORTH-WEST 76
§ 4. Demosthenes’ Aetolian expedition 86
§ 5. Demosthenes’ victories at Olpae and Idomene 95
§ 6. The close of operations 107
§ 2. Cleon’s rebuff: Mitylene 114
§ 4. Cleon’s triumph: Sphacteria 129
CHAPTER VI—ATHENS’ FAILURES 141
§ 1. The “strategy of offence” against Boeotia 141
§ 3. Sicily: the Congress of Gela 152
§ 4. Megara: the Athenian capture of Nisaea 158
§ 2. The capture of Amphipolis 170
§ 3. The banishment of Thucydides 172
§ 4. The end of Brasidas and Cleon 173
§ 2. Alcibiades’ Argive policy 184
§ 3. Agis’ attack on Argos 188
§ 4. The battle of Mantinea 197
§ 5. The Chalcidic “alternative to Sicily” 207
§ 1. Alcibiades’ Sicilian policy 214
§ 2. The mutilation of the Hermae 220
§ 3. The first year’s operations against Syracuse 223
§ 4. The siege of the city 229
§ 5. The Syracusan triumph 235
§ 6. The retreat and the massacre 242
CHAPTER X—THE END OF THUCYDIDES’ NARRATIVE 249
§ 1. “The Ionian War” and the evidence for it 249
§ 2. The muster of the fleets, 412 B.C. 251
§ 3. The Oligarchic Revolution of 411 B.C. 257
§ 4. The battle of Cynossema 262
CHAPTER XI—THE END OF THE WAR 269
§ 1. The triumph and the fall of Alcibiades 269
§ 2. The campaign and battle of Arginusae 276
§ 3. The condemnation of the generals 283
§ 4. The “battle” of Aegospotami and the fall of Athens 291
NOTE TO CHAPTER XI—THE “MIDDLE PARTY” AND ITS LEADERS 299
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 308