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The Peloponnesian War / by Donald Kagan.

By: Publication details: New York : Viking, c2003.Description: xxvii, 511 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0670032115 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DF229 .K34 2003
Contents:
The Road to War -- The Great Rivalry (479-439) -- Sparta and its Alliance -- Athens and its Empire -- Athens Against Sparta -- The Thirty Years' Peace -- Threats to Peace: Thurii -- The Samian Rebellion -- "A Quarrel in a Far-away Country" (436-433) -- Epidamnus -- Corinth -- Enter Athens (433-432) -- The Battle of Sybota -- Potidaea -- The Megarian Decree -- The Decisions for War (432) -- Sparta Chooses War -- The Athenian Decision for War -- Pericles' War -- War Aims and Resources (432-431) -- Sparta -- Athens -- The Theban Attack on Plataea (431) -- The Spartan Invasion of Attica -- Attacks on Pericles -- The Athenian Response -- Pericles' Funeral Oration -- The War's First Year: An Accounting -- The Plague (430-429) -- Epidaurus -- The Plague in Athens -- Pericles Under Fire -- Peace Negotiations -- Pericles Condemned -- The Spartans go to Sea -- Potidaea Recaptured -- Pericles' Last Days (429) -- Sparta Attacks Plataea -- Spartan Action in the Northwest -- Enter Phormio -- The Spartans Attack Piraeus -- The Death of Pericles -- Rebellion in the Empire (428-427) -- The "New Politicians" in Athens -- Conspiracy on Lesbos -- Athens Reacts -- Mytilene Appeals to the Peloponnesians -- The Siege of Mytilene -- Sparta Acts on Land and Sea -- The Fate of Mytilene -- The Mytilene Debate: Cleon Versus Diodotus -- Terror and Adventure (427) -- The Fate of Plataea -- Civil War at Corcyra -- First Athenian Expedition to Sicily -- New Strategies -- Demosthenes and the New Strategy (426) -- The Spartans in Central Greece -- Athenian Initiatives -- Demosthenes' Aetolian Campaign -- The Spartans Attack the Northwest -- Pylos and Sphacteria (425) -- Athens' Western Commitments -- Demosthenes' Plan: The Fort at Pylos -- The Spartans on Sphacteria -- The Athenian Naval Victory -- Sparta's Peace Offer -- Cleon Against Nicias -- The Spartan Surrender on Sphacteria -- Athens on the Offensive: Megara and Delium (424) -- Cythera and Thyrea -- Disappointment in Sicily -- The Assault on Megara -- Athens' Boeotian Invasion -- Delium -- Brasidas' Thracian Campaign (424-423) -- The Capture of Amphipolis -- Thucydides at Amphipolis -- Truce -- Nicias' Expedition to Thrace -- The Coming of Peace (422-421) -- Cleon in Command -- The Battle of Amphipolis -- The Death of Brasidas and Cleon -- The Coming of Peace -- The Peace of Nicias -- The False Peace -- The Peace Unravels (421-420) -- A Troubled Peace -- The Spartan-Athenian Alliance -- The Argive League -- Sparta's Problems -- The Corinthians' Mysterious Policy -- The Boeotians -- The Alliance of Athens and Argos (420-418) -- The Athenian Breach with Sparta -- Spartan Humiliations -- Alcibiades in the Peloponnesus -- The Spartans Against Argos -- Confrontation in the Argive Plain -- The Battle of Mantinea (418) -- Agis' March to Tegea -- To Force a Battle -- The Allied Army Moves -- The Battle -- Politics Intervene -- The Meaning of Mantinea -- After Mantinea: Politics and Policy at Sparta and Athens (418-416) -- Democracy Restored to Argos -- Politics at Athens -- Ostracism of Hyperbolus -- The Athenian Conquest of Melos -- Nicias Against Alcibiades -- The Disaster in Sicily -- The Decision (416-415) -- Athens' Sicilian Connections -- The Debate in Athens -- The Debate to Reconsider -- The Home Front and the First Campaigns (415) -- Sacrilege -- Witch Hunt -- Athenian Strategy -- The Summer Campaign of 415 -- The Flight of Alcibiades -- The First Attack on Syracuse (415) -- The Athenians at Syracuse -- Syracusan Resistance -- Alcibiades at Sparta -- The Siege of Syracuse (414) -- The Illness of Nicias and the Death of Lamachus -- Athens Breaks the Treaty -- Help Arrives at Syracuse -- Nicias Moves to Plemmyrium -- Nicias' Letter to Athens -- The Athenian Response -- The Besiegers Besieged (414-413) -- Sparta Takes the Offensive -- The Fort at Decelea -- Reinforcements for Both Sides -- The Capture of Plemmyrium -- The Battle in the Great Harbor -- The Second Athenian Armada: Demosthenes' Plan -- The Night Attack on Epipolae -- Retreat or Remain? -- Eclipse -- Defeat and Destruction (413) -- The Final Naval Battle -- The Final Retreat -- The Fate of the Athenians -- A Judgment on Nicias -- Revolutions in the Empire and in Athens -- After the Disaster (413-412) -- The Probouloi -- Spartan Ambitions -- Agis in Command -- Persian Initiatives -- The Spartans Choose Chios -- Alcibiades Intervenes -- Tissaphernes' Draft Treaty -- War in the Aegean (412-411) -- Athens Fights Back -- Decision at Miletus -- Alcibiades Joins the Persians -- A New Spartan Agreement with Persia -- A New Spartan Strategy -- Rebellion at Rhodes -- The Importance of Euboea -- A New Treaty with Persia -- The Spartans in the Hellespont -- The Revolutionary Movement (411) -- The Aristocratic Tradition -- Democracy and the War -- Thrasybulus and the Moderates -- The Real Oligarchs -- Phrynichus Against Alcibiades -- The Coup (411) -- Peisander's Mission to Athens -- The Oligarchs' Breach with Alcibiades -- Divisions Among the Plotters -- The Democracy Overthrown -- The Oligarchic Leaders -- The Four Hundred in Power (411) -- The Democracy at Samos -- Pharnabazus and the Hellespont -- Alcibiades Recalled -- The Five Thousand (411) -- Dissent Within the Four Hundred -- The Oligarchic Plot to Betray Athens -- The Threat to Euboea -- The Fall of the Four Hundred -- The Constitution of the Five Thousand -- The Five Thousand in Action -- War in the Hellespont (411-410) -- The Phantom Phoenician Fleet -- The Battle of Cynossema -- The Battle of Abydos -- The Battle of Cyzicus -- The Fall of Athens -- The Restoration (410-409) -- Sparta's Peace Offer -- Democracy Restored -- The War Resumed -- The Return of Alcibiades (409-408) -- Athens Attempts to Clear the Straits -- Athenian Negotiations with Persia -- Alcibiades Returns -- Cyrus, Lysander, and the Fall of Alcibiades (408-406) -- Prince Cyrus Replaces Tissaphernes -- The Emergence of Lysander -- The Collaboration of Cyrus and Lysander -- The Battle of Notium -- The Fall of Alcibiades -- Arginusae (406) -- The New Navarch -- Conon Trapped at Mytilene -- Athens Rebuilds a Navy -- The Battle of Arginusae -- Rescue and Recovery -- The Trial of the Generals -- The Fall of Athens (405-404) -- Another Spartan Peace Offer -- The Return of Lysander -- The Battle of Aegospotami -- The Results of the Battle -- The Fate of Athens -- Theramenes Negotiates a Peace.
Summary: One of the world's foremost historians presents a fresh look at the greatest war of ancient Greece and a pivotal moment in Western civilization that still resonates today. 24 maps.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Road to War -- The Great Rivalry (479-439) -- Sparta and its Alliance -- Athens and its Empire -- Athens Against Sparta -- The Thirty Years' Peace -- Threats to Peace: Thurii -- The Samian Rebellion -- "A Quarrel in a Far-away Country" (436-433) -- Epidamnus -- Corinth -- Enter Athens (433-432) -- The Battle of Sybota -- Potidaea -- The Megarian Decree -- The Decisions for War (432) -- Sparta Chooses War -- The Athenian Decision for War -- Pericles' War -- War Aims and Resources (432-431) -- Sparta -- Athens -- The Theban Attack on Plataea (431) -- The Spartan Invasion of Attica -- Attacks on Pericles -- The Athenian Response -- Pericles' Funeral Oration -- The War's First Year: An Accounting -- The Plague (430-429) -- Epidaurus -- The Plague in Athens -- Pericles Under Fire -- Peace Negotiations -- Pericles Condemned -- The Spartans go to Sea -- Potidaea Recaptured -- Pericles' Last Days (429) -- Sparta Attacks Plataea -- Spartan Action in the Northwest -- Enter Phormio -- The Spartans Attack Piraeus -- The Death of Pericles -- Rebellion in the Empire (428-427) -- The "New Politicians" in Athens -- Conspiracy on Lesbos -- Athens Reacts -- Mytilene Appeals to the Peloponnesians -- The Siege of Mytilene -- Sparta Acts on Land and Sea -- The Fate of Mytilene -- The Mytilene Debate: Cleon Versus Diodotus -- Terror and Adventure (427) -- The Fate of Plataea -- Civil War at Corcyra -- First Athenian Expedition to Sicily -- New Strategies -- Demosthenes and the New Strategy (426) -- The Spartans in Central Greece -- Athenian Initiatives -- Demosthenes' Aetolian Campaign -- The Spartans Attack the Northwest -- Pylos and Sphacteria (425) -- Athens' Western Commitments -- Demosthenes' Plan: The Fort at Pylos -- The Spartans on Sphacteria -- The Athenian Naval Victory -- Sparta's Peace Offer -- Cleon Against Nicias -- The Spartan Surrender on Sphacteria -- Athens on the Offensive: Megara and Delium (424) -- Cythera and Thyrea -- Disappointment in Sicily -- The Assault on Megara -- Athens' Boeotian Invasion -- Delium -- Brasidas' Thracian Campaign (424-423) -- The Capture of Amphipolis -- Thucydides at Amphipolis -- Truce -- Nicias' Expedition to Thrace -- The Coming of Peace (422-421) -- Cleon in Command -- The Battle of Amphipolis -- The Death of Brasidas and Cleon -- The Coming of Peace -- The Peace of Nicias -- The False Peace -- The Peace Unravels (421-420) -- A Troubled Peace -- The Spartan-Athenian Alliance -- The Argive League -- Sparta's Problems -- The Corinthians' Mysterious Policy -- The Boeotians -- The Alliance of Athens and Argos (420-418) -- The Athenian Breach with Sparta -- Spartan Humiliations -- Alcibiades in the Peloponnesus -- The Spartans Against Argos -- Confrontation in the Argive Plain -- The Battle of Mantinea (418) -- Agis' March to Tegea -- To Force a Battle -- The Allied Army Moves -- The Battle -- Politics Intervene -- The Meaning of Mantinea -- After Mantinea: Politics and Policy at Sparta and Athens (418-416) -- Democracy Restored to Argos -- Politics at Athens -- Ostracism of Hyperbolus -- The Athenian Conquest of Melos -- Nicias Against Alcibiades -- The Disaster in Sicily -- The Decision (416-415) -- Athens' Sicilian Connections -- The Debate in Athens -- The Debate to Reconsider -- The Home Front and the First Campaigns (415) -- Sacrilege -- Witch Hunt -- Athenian Strategy -- The Summer Campaign of 415 -- The Flight of Alcibiades -- The First Attack on Syracuse (415) -- The Athenians at Syracuse -- Syracusan Resistance -- Alcibiades at Sparta -- The Siege of Syracuse (414) -- The Illness of Nicias and the Death of Lamachus -- Athens Breaks the Treaty -- Help Arrives at Syracuse -- Nicias Moves to Plemmyrium -- Nicias' Letter to Athens -- The Athenian Response -- The Besiegers Besieged (414-413) -- Sparta Takes the Offensive -- The Fort at Decelea -- Reinforcements for Both Sides -- The Capture of Plemmyrium -- The Battle in the Great Harbor -- The Second Athenian Armada: Demosthenes' Plan -- The Night Attack on Epipolae -- Retreat or Remain? -- Eclipse -- Defeat and Destruction (413) -- The Final Naval Battle -- The Final Retreat -- The Fate of the Athenians -- A Judgment on Nicias -- Revolutions in the Empire and in Athens -- After the Disaster (413-412) -- The Probouloi -- Spartan Ambitions -- Agis in Command -- Persian Initiatives -- The Spartans Choose Chios -- Alcibiades Intervenes -- Tissaphernes' Draft Treaty -- War in the Aegean (412-411) -- Athens Fights Back -- Decision at Miletus -- Alcibiades Joins the Persians -- A New Spartan Agreement with Persia -- A New Spartan Strategy -- Rebellion at Rhodes -- The Importance of Euboea -- A New Treaty with Persia -- The Spartans in the Hellespont -- The Revolutionary Movement (411) -- The Aristocratic Tradition -- Democracy and the War -- Thrasybulus and the Moderates -- The Real Oligarchs -- Phrynichus Against Alcibiades -- The Coup (411) -- Peisander's Mission to Athens -- The Oligarchs' Breach with Alcibiades -- Divisions Among the Plotters -- The Democracy Overthrown -- The Oligarchic Leaders -- The Four Hundred in Power (411) -- The Democracy at Samos -- Pharnabazus and the Hellespont -- Alcibiades Recalled -- The Five Thousand (411) -- Dissent Within the Four Hundred -- The Oligarchic Plot to Betray Athens -- The Threat to Euboea -- The Fall of the Four Hundred -- The Constitution of the Five Thousand -- The Five Thousand in Action -- War in the Hellespont (411-410) -- The Phantom Phoenician Fleet -- The Battle of Cynossema -- The Battle of Abydos -- The Battle of Cyzicus -- The Fall of Athens -- The Restoration (410-409) -- Sparta's Peace Offer -- Democracy Restored -- The War Resumed -- The Return of Alcibiades (409-408) -- Athens Attempts to Clear the Straits -- Athenian Negotiations with Persia -- Alcibiades Returns -- Cyrus, Lysander, and the Fall of Alcibiades (408-406) -- Prince Cyrus Replaces Tissaphernes -- The Emergence of Lysander -- The Collaboration of Cyrus and Lysander -- The Battle of Notium -- The Fall of Alcibiades -- Arginusae (406) -- The New Navarch -- Conon Trapped at Mytilene -- Athens Rebuilds a Navy -- The Battle of Arginusae -- Rescue and Recovery -- The Trial of the Generals -- The Fall of Athens (405-404) -- Another Spartan Peace Offer -- The Return of Lysander -- The Battle of Aegospotami -- The Results of the Battle -- The Fate of Athens -- Theramenes Negotiates a Peace.

One of the world's foremost historians presents a fresh look at the greatest war of ancient Greece and a pivotal moment in Western civilization that still resonates today. 24 maps.

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