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The History of the Peloponnesian War. By Thucydides. Written 431 B.C.E. Translated by Richard Crawley. Table of Contents. The Second Book. Chapter VI. Beginning of the Peloponnesian War - First Invasion of Attica - Funeral Oration of Pericles. The war between the Athenians and Peloponnesians and the allies on either side now really begins.
book: chapter: 23. The greatest action before this was that against the Medes; and yet that, by two battles by sea and as many by land, was soon decided. But as for this war, it both lasted long and the harm it did to Greece was such as the like in the like space had never been seen before. [ 2 ] For neither had there ever been so many cities ...
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843. This text was converted to electronic form by optical character recognition and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE THIRD BOOK, chapter 38. book: chapter: 38. "For my own part, I am of the opinion I was before; and I wonder at these men that have brought this matter of the Mytilenaeans in question again and thereby caused delay, which is the advantage only of them that do the injury.
Thucydides. Thucydides (c. 460 B.C. – c. 400 B.C.) (Greek Θουκυδίδης ) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have ...
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 2. book: chapter: 8% of the text is displayed below. If you wish to view the entire text, please click here. 1. The war between the Athenians and Peloponnesians and the allies on either side now really begins. For now all intercourse except through the medium of heralds ceased, and hostilities were ...
book: chapter: 28. The Peloponnesians, setting forth betimes in the morning from Teichiussa, put in at Miletus and stayed there one day. The next day they took with them those galleys of Chios which had formerly been chased together with Chalcideus, and meant to have returned to Teichiussa to take aboard such necessaries as they had left ashore ...
