partan 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

BOOK V

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

BOOK VI

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

BOOK VII

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

BOOK VIII

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--Oligarchical Coup d'Etat
at Athens--Patriotism of the Army at Samos

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

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

_The State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the
Peloponnesian War_

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the
Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke