History of the Peloponnesian War
A contemporary history of the ancient Greek war between Athens and Sparta and their allies.
License
Public Domain
Originally published
1874
Latest release
Oct 8, 2026
Pages
691
Format
6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm)
Book type
Novel
Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Book I
- I. The state of Greece from the earliest times to the commencement of the Peloponnesian War
- II. Causes of the war
- III. Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon
- IV. From the end of the Persian to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War
- V. Second Congress at Lacedaemon
- Book II
- VI. Beginning of the Peloponnesian War
- VII. Second Year of the War
- VIII. The Third Year of the War
- Book III
- IX. Fourth and fifth years of the war—Revolt of Mitylene
- Fifth year of the war—Trial and execution of the Plataeans—Corcyraean revolution
- XI. Sixth year of the war—Campaigns of Demosthenes in western Greece—Ruin of Ambracia
- Book IV
- XII. Seventh Year of the War
- XIII. Seventh and eighth years of the war—End of Corcyraean revolution—Peace of Gela—Capture of Nisaea
- XIV. Eighth and ninth years of the war
- Book V
- XV. Tenth year of the war—Death of Cleon and Brasidas—Peace of Nicias
- XVI. Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese
- XVII. The Melian Conference
- Book VI
- XVIII. The Sicilian Campaign
- XIX. The Seventeenth Year of the War
- XX. Seventeenth and eighteenth years of the war—Inaction of the Athenian army—Alcibiades at Sparta—Investment of Syracus
- Book VII
- XXI. Eighteenth and nineteenth years of the war
- XXII. Nineteenth year of the war
- XXIII. Nineteenth year of the war
- Book VIII
- XXIV. The War in Ionia
- XXV
- XXVI
- Battles of Naupactus