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Index
Title page
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
PREFACE
MAPS AND PLANS
CHAPTER I-THE CAUSE OF THE WAR
§ 1. Sparta
§ 2. Pericles
CHAPTER II-PERICLES
§ 1. The strength of the rivals
§ 2. Pericles’ “strategy of exhaustion”
§ 3. The criticism of Pericles’ strategy
§ 4. The price of the strategy: Plataea
§ 5. The greatness of Pericles
CHAPTER III-THE BEGINNINGS OF THE WAR AT SEA
§ 1. Strategy: the tasks for Athens’ fleet
§ 2. Tactics: the handling of the ships
§ 3. Phormio
§ 4. Alcidas
§ 5. The Athenian naval predominance
CHAPTER IV-THE CAMPAIGNS IN THE NORTH-WEST
§ 1. The theatre of war
§ 2. The battle of Stratus
§ 3. The raid on Salamis
§ 4. Demosthenes’ Aetolian expedition
§ 5. Demosthenes’ victories at Olpae and Idomene
§ 6. The close of operations
CHAPTER V-CLEON
§ 1. Cleon and Nicias
§ 2. Cleon’s rebuff: Mitylene
§ 3. Demosthenes at Pylos
§ 4. Cleon’s triumph: Sphacteria
NOTE-PYLOS AND SPHACTERIA
CHAPTER VI-ATHENS’ FAILURES
§ 1. The “strategy of offence” against Boeotia
§ 2. The battle of Delium
§ 3. Sicily: the Congress of Gela
§ 4. Megara: the Athenian capture of Nisaea
CHAPTER VII-BRASIDAS
§ 1. Chalcidice
§ 2. The capture of Amphipolis
§ 3. The banishment of Thucydides
§ 4. The end of Brasidas and Cleon
§ 5. The temporary peace
CHAPTER VIII-ALCIBIADES
§ 1. The new leader
§ 2. Alcibiades’ Argive policy
§ 3. Agis’ attack on Argos
§ 4. The battle of Mantinea
§ 5. The Chalcidic “alternative to Sicily”
CHAPTER IX-SYRACUSE
§ 1. Alcibiades’ Sicilian policy
§ 2. The mutilation of the Hermae
§ 3. The first year’s operations against Syracuse
§ 4. The siege of the city
§ 5. The Syracusan triumph
§ 6. The retreat and the massacre
CHAPTER X-THE END OF THUCYDIDES’ NARRATIVE
§ 1. “The Ionian War” and the evidence for it
§ 2. The muster of the fleets, 412 B.C.
§ 3. The Oligarchic Revolution of 411 B.C.
§ 4. The battle of Cynossema
CHAPTER XI-THE END OF THE WAR
§ 1. The triumph and the fall of Alcibiades
§ 2. The campaign and battle of Arginusae
§ 3. The condemnation of the generals
§ 4. The “battle” of Aegospotami and the fall of Athens
EPILOGUE
NOTE TO CHAPTER XI-THE “MIDDLE PARTY” AND ITS LEADERS
CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY
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