The history of Herodotus ; the history of the Peloponnesian War

Herodotus (author.). Thucydides, (author.). Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902 (translator.). Crawley, Richard, 1840-1893 (translator.). Feetham, Richard, 1874-1965 (translator.).

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ISBN: 0852291639
ISBN: 9780852291634
Physical Description: ix, 616 pages : maps (part folded) ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1977.
Copyright: ©1952.

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The history of Herodotus / Herodotus : Biographical note -- The first book, entitled Clio -- The second book, entitled Euterpé -- The third book, entitled Thalia -- The fourth book, entitled Melpomene -- The fifth book, entitled Terpsichore -- The sixth book, entitled Erato -- The seventh book, entitled Polymnia -- The eigth book, entitled Urania -- The ninth book, entitled Calliope -- Maps -- Index ; The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides : The first book : The State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War ; Causes of the War. The Affair of Epidamnus. The Affair of Potidaea ; Congress of the Peloponnesian Congederacy at Lacedaemon ; From the End of the Persian to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War. The Progress from Supremacy to Empire ; Second Congress at Lacedaemon. Prepaations for War and Diplomatic Skirmishes. Cylon. Pausanias. Themistocles -- The second book : Beginning of the Peloponnesian War. First Invasion of Attica. Funeral Oration of Pericles ; Second Year of the War. The plague of Athens. Position and Policy of Pericles. Fall of Potidaea ; Third Year of the War. Investment of Plataea. Naval Victories of Phormio. Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under Sitalces -- The third book : Fourth and Fifth Years of the War. Revolt of Mitylene ; Fifth Year of the War. Trial and Execution of the Plataeans. Corcyraean Revolution ; Sixth Year of the War. Campaigns of Demosthenes in Western Greece. Ruin of Ambracia -- The fourth book : Seventh Year of the War. Occupation of Pylos. Surrender of the Spartan Army in Sphacteria ; Seventy and Eighth Years of the War. End of Corcyraean Revolution. Peace of Gela. Capture of Nisaea ; Eighth and Ninth Years of the War. Invasion of Bocotia. Fall of Amphipolis. Brilliant Successes of Brasidas -- The fifth book : Tenth Year of the War. Death of Cleon and Brasidas. Peace of Nicias ; Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese. League of Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians. Battle of Mantinea and breaking up of the League ; Sixteenth Year of the War. The Melian Conference. Fate of Melos -- The sixth book : Seventeenth Year of the War. The Sicilian Campaign. Affair of the Hermae. Departure of the Expedition ; Seventeenth Year of the War. Parties at Syracuse. Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton. Disgrace of Alcibiades ; Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the War. Inaction of the Athenian Army. Alcibiades at Sparta. Investment of Syracuse -- The seventh book : Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the War. Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse. Fortification of Decelea. Successes of the Syracusans -- The eighth book : Ninetheenth and Twentieth Years of the War. Recolt of ionia. Intervention of Persia. The War in Ionia ; Tentieth and Twenty-first Years of the War. Intrigues of Alcibiades. Withdrawal of the Persian Subsidies. Oligarchial Coup d'Etat at Athens. Patriotism of the Army at Samos ; Twenty-first Year of the War. Recall of Alcibiades to Samos. Revoly of Euboea and Downfall of the Four Hundred. Battle of Cynossema -- Maps : The Greek World, 431 B.C. ; Greece ; Athens and the Piraeus ; Pylos and the Sphacteria ; Syracuse, 415-413 B.C. -- Index.