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Book I CHAPTER I The state of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War CHAPTER II Causes of the War - The Affair of Epidamnus - The Affair of Potidaea CHAPTER III Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon CHAPTER IV From the End of the Persian to the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War - The Progress from Supremacy to Empire CHAPTER V Second Congress at Lacedaemon - Preparations for War and Diplomatic Skirmishes - Cylon - Pausanias - Themistocles BOOK II CHAPTER VI Beginning of the Peloponnesian War - First Invasion of Attica - Funeral Oration of Pericles CHAPTER VII Second Year of the War - The Plague of Athens - Position and Policy of Pericles - Fall of Potidaea CHAPTER VIII Third Year of the War - Investment of Plataea - Naval Victories of Phormio - Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under Sitalces BOOK III CHAPTER IX Fourth and Fifth Years of the War - Revolt of Mitylene CHAPTER X Fifth Year of the War - Trial and Execution of the Plataeans - Corcyraean Revolution CHAPTER XI Sixth Year of the War - Campaigns of Demosthenes in Western Greece - Ruin of Ambracia BOOK IV CHAPTER XII Seventh Year of the War - Occupation of Pylos - Surrender of the Spartan Army in Sphacteria CHAPTER XIII Seventh and Eighth Years of the War - End of Corcyraean Revolution - Peace of Gela - Capture of Nisaea CHAPTER XIV Eighth and Ninth Years of the War - Invasion of Boeotia - Fall of Amphipolis - Brilliant Successes of Brasidas BOOK V CHAPTER XV Tenth Year of the War - Death of Cleon and Brasidas - Peace of Nicias CHAPTER XVI Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese - League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians - Battle of Mantinea and breaking up of the League CHAPTER XVII Sixteenth Year of the War - The Melian Conference - Fate of Melos BOOK VI CHAPTER XVIII Seventeenth Year of the War - The Sicilian Campaign - Affair of the Hermae - Departure of the Expedition CHAPTER XIX Seventeenth Year of the War - Parties at Syracuse - Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton - Disgrace of Alcibiades CHAPTER XX Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the War - Inaction of the Athenian Army - Alcibiades at Sparta -Investment of Syracuse BOOK VII CHAPTER XXI Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the War - Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse - Fortification of Decelea - Successes of the Syracusans CHAPTER XXII Nineteenth Year of the War - Arrival of Demosthenes - Defeat of the Athenians at Epipolae - Folly and Obstinacy of Nicias CHAPTER XXIII Nineteenth Year of the War - Battles in the Great Harbour - Retreat and Annihilation of the Athenian Army BOOK VIII CHAPTER XXIV Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the War - Revolt of Ionia - Intervention of Persia - The War in Ionia CHAPTER XXV Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of the War - Intrigues of Alcibiades - Withdrawal of the Persian Subsidies - Oligarchical Coup d'Etat at Athens - Patriotism of the Army at Samos CHAPTER XXVI Twenty first Year of the War - Recall of Alcibiades to Samos - Revolt of Euboea and Downfall of the Four Hundred - Battle of Cynossema
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