The Peloponnesian War /

The Peloponnesian War /

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Author / Creator:Kagan, Donald.
Imprint:New York : Viking, c2003.
Description:xxvii, 511 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.)
Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Greece.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4872258
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ISBN:0670032115 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. The Road to War
  • Chapter 1. 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
  • Chapter 2. "A Quarrel in a Far-away Country" (436-433)
  • Epidamnus
  • Corinth
  • Chapter 3. Enter Athens (433-432)
  • The Battle of Sybota
  • Potidaea
  • The Megarian Decree
  • Chapter 4. The Decisions for War (432)
  • Sparta Chooses War
  • The Athenian Decision for War
  • Part 2. Pericles' War
  • Chapter 5. War Aims and Resources (432-431)
  • Sparta
  • Athens
  • Chapter 6. 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
  • Chapter 7. The Plague (430-429)
  • Epidaurus
  • The Plague in Athens
  • Pericles Under Fire
  • Peace Negotiations
  • Pericles Condemned
  • The Spartans go to Sea
  • Potidaea Recaptured
  • Chapter 8. Pericles' Last Days (429)
  • Sparta Attacks Plataea
  • Spartan Action in the Northwest
  • Enter Phormio
  • The Spartans Attack Piraeus
  • The Death of Pericles
  • Chapter 9. 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
  • Chapter 10. Terror and Adventure (427)
  • The Fate of Plataea
  • Civil War at Corcyra
  • First Athenian Expedition to Sicily
  • Part 3. New Strategies
  • Chapter 11. Demosthenes and the New Strategy (426)
  • The Spartans in Central Greece
  • Athenian Initiatives
  • Demosthenes' Aetolian Campaign
  • The Spartans Attack the Northwest
  • Chapter 12. 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
  • Chapter 13. Athens on the Offensive: Megara and Delium (424)
  • Cythera and Thyrea
  • Disappointment in Sicily
  • The Assault on Megara
  • Athens' Boeotian Invasion
  • Delium
  • Chapter 14. Brasidas' Thracian Campaign (424-423)
  • The Capture of Amphipolis
  • Thucydides at Amphipolis
  • Truce
  • Nicias' Expedition to Thrace
  • Chapter 15. 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
  • Part 4. The False Peace
  • Chapter 16. The Peace Unravels (421-420)
  • A Troubled Peace
  • The Spartan-Athenian Alliance
  • The Argive League
  • Sparta's Problems
  • The Corinthians' Mysterious Policy
  • The Boeotians
  • Chapter 17. 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
  • Chapter 18. 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
  • Chapter 19. 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
  • Part 5. The Disaster in Sicily
  • Chapter 20. The Decision (416-415)
  • Athens' Sicilian Connections
  • The Debate in Athens
  • The Debate to Reconsider
  • Chapter 21. The Home Front and the First Campaigns (415)
  • Sacrilege
  • Witch Hunt
  • Athenian Strategy
  • The Summer Campaign of 415
  • The Flight of Alcibiades
  • Chapter 22. The First Attack on Syracuse (415)
  • The Athenians at Syracuse
  • Syracusan Resistance
  • Alcibiades at Sparta
  • Chapter 23. 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
  • Chapter 24. 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
  • Chapter 25. Defeat and Destruction (413)
  • The Final Naval Battle
  • The Final Retreat
  • The Fate of the Athenians
  • A Judgment on Nicias
  • Part 6. Revolutions in the Empire and in Athens
  • Chapter 26. After the Disaster (413-412)
  • The Probouloi
  • Spartan Ambitions
  • Agis in Command
  • Persian Initiatives
  • The Spartans Choose Chios
  • Alcibiades Intervenes
  • Tissaphernes' Draft Treaty
  • Chapter 27. 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
  • Chapter 28. The Revolutionary Movement (411)
  • The Aristocratic Tradition
  • Democracy and the War
  • Thrasybulus and the Moderates
  • The Real Oligarchs
  • Phrynichus Against Alcibiades
  • Chapter 29. The Coup (411)
  • Peisander's Mission to Athens
  • The Oligarchs' Breach with Alcibiades
  • Divisions Among the Plotters
  • The Democracy Overthrown
  • The Oligarchic Leaders
  • Chapter 30. The Four Hundred in Power (411)
  • The Democracy at Samos
  • Pharnabazus and the Hellespont
  • Alcibiades Recalled
  • Chapter 31. 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
  • Chapter 32. War in the Hellespont (411-410)
  • The Phantom Phoenician Fleet
  • The Battle of Cynossema
  • The Battle of Abydos
  • The Battle of Cyzicus
  • Part 7. The Fall of Athens
  • Chapter 33. The Restoration (410-409)
  • Sparta's Peace Offer
  • Democracy Restored
  • The War Resumed
  • Chapter 34. The Return of Alcibiades (409-408)
  • Athens Attempts to Clear the Straits
  • Athenian Negotiations with Persia
  • Alcibiades Returns
  • Chapter 35. 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
  • Chapter 36. 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
  • Chapter 37. 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
  • Conclusion
  • Sources for the History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Index
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