Contents
- List of Maps
- Translator’s Note, by Walter Blanco
- Introduction, by Jennifer Roberts
- The Text of The Peloponnesian War
- Book 1
- Book 2
- Book 3
- Book 4
- Book 5
- Book 6
- Book 7
- Book 8
- Backgrounds and Contexts
- Xenophon • Hellenica, Book 1
- Book 2, Chapters 1–3
- Herodotus • The Histories
- Book 2, Chapters 111–20
- Book 3, Chapters 80–88
- Plato • Gorgias, 479d–484c
- 488b–492c
- Niccolò Machiavelli • The Prince, Chapters 18 and 25 • The Discourses, Book 1, Chapter 39 and 53
- Book 3, Chapter 16
- Thomas Hobbes • To the Reader • Leviathan, Part 1, Chapter 13
- Walter Karp • The Two Thousand Years’ War
- Interpretations
- Theodor Gomperz • [Secular Thucydides]
- Francis M. Cornford • [Thucydides and the Irrational]
- Charles N. Cochrane • [Thucydides, Cornford, and History]
- R. G. Collingwood • [Greek Thought and the Writing of History]
- Albert Cook • Particular and General in Thucydides
- Cynthia Farrar • [Historical Understanding and the Polis]
- Adam Parry • Thucydides’ Historical Perspective
- Glen Bowersock • The Personality of Thucydides
- Robert Gilpin • The Theory of Hegemonic War
- Michael Doyle • Thucydides: A Realist?
- Gregory Crane • Truest Causes and Thucydidean Realisms
- Chronology
- The Principal Combatants at the Outbreak of the War
- The Kings of Sparta during the Peloponnesian War and the Kings of Persia during the Fifth Century
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Places and People
- Index of Important Figures
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