Thucydides, translations and editions
Gomme, A. W., A Historical Commentary on Thucydides Volume III, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1956)
Mynott, Jeremy, The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2013)
Lattimore, Steven, The Peloponnesian War, Hackett Publishing, Indianapolis (1998)
Strassler, Robert B. (trans. Crawley), The Landmark Thucydides: a Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, Free Press, New York (1996)
Wilson, J. B., Thucydides Pylos 425 BC Book IV 2-41 with Translation and Historical Notes, Aris & Philips, Warminster (1979)
Background
Best, J. G. P., Thracian Peltasts and their Influence on Greek Warfare, Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen (1969)
Cartledge, Paul, After Thermopylae; the Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars, Oxford University Press, New York (2013)
——, Sparta and Lakonia: a Regional History 1300-362 BC, Routledge, (second edition) London (2001)
Hanson, Victor David, A war like no other: how the Athenians and Spartans fought the Peloponnesian War, Random House, New York (2005)
Kagan, Donald, The Peloponnesian War, Penguin Books, London (2004)
Kagan, Donald and Viggiano, Gregory F., Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece, Princeton University Press, Princeton (2013)
Morrison, J. S., Coates J. F. and Rankov, N. B., The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2000)
Lazenby, J. F., The Spartan Army: Aris & Philips, Warminster (1985)
Nicastro, Nicholas, The Isle of Stone: a Novel of Ancient Sparta, Signet Books, New York (2005)
Pritchett, W. K., Studies in Ancient Greek Topography Part I, University of California Press, Berkeley (1965)
——, The Greek State at War Volumes I–V, University of California Press, Berkeley (1971-1991)
Rankov, Boris, Trireme Olympias: the Final Report, Oxbow Books, Oxford (2012)
Rusch, Scott M, Sparta at War: Strategy, Tactics and Campaigns, Frontline Books, London (2011)
Sabin, Philip, van Wees, Hans and Whitby, Michael, Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare I: Greece, the Hellenistic world and the rise of Rome, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2007)
Schwartz, Adam, Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart (2010)
Shaw, Timothy, The Trireme Project: Operational Experience 1987–90, Oxbow Books, Oxford (1993)
Trundle, Matthew, ‘Light troops in classical Athens’ in Pritchard, David M., War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2010)
van Wees, Hans, Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities, Duckworth, London (2004)
Westlake, H. D., Individuals in Thucydides, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1968)