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• ISBN: 0670032115
• ISBN: 9780670032112
• Physical Description: xxvii, 511 pages : maps ; 25 cm
• Publisher: New York : Viking, 2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-494) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1 Road to War 1 -- Chapter 1 Great Rivalry (479-439) 3 -- Chapter 2 "A Quarrel in a Far-away Country" (436-433) 25 -- Chapter 3 Enter Athens (433-432) 30 -- Chapter 4 Decisions for War (432) 41 -- Part 2 Pericles' War 55 -- Chapter 5 War Aims and Resources (432-431) 57 -- Chapter 6 Theban Attack on Plataea (431) 64 -- Chapter 7 Plague (430-429) 76 -- Chapter 8 Pericles' Last Days (429) 87 -- Death of Pericles 97 -- Chapter 9 Rebellion in the Empire (428-427) 99 -- Chapter 10 Terror and Adventure (427) 113 -- Part 3 New Strategies 123 -- Chapter 11 Demosthenes and the New Strategy (426) 125 -- Chapter 12 Pylos and Sphacteria (425) 137 -- Chapter 13 Athens on the Offensive: Megara and Delium (424) 157 -- Chapter 14 Brasidas' Thracian Campaign (424-423) 171 -- Chapter 15 Coming of Peace (422-421) 182 -- Part 4 False Peace 195 -- Chapter 16 Peace Unravels (421-420) 197 -- Chapter 17 Alliance of Athens and Argos (420-418) 210 -- Chapter 18 Battle of Mantinea (418) 228 -- Chapter 19 After Mantinea: Politics and Policy at Sparta and Athens (418-416) 244 -- Part 5 Disaster in Sicily 251 -- Chapter 20 Decision (416-415) 253 -- Chapter 21 Home Front and the First Campaigns (415) 262 -- Chapter 22 First Attack on Syracuse (415) 275 -- Chapter 23 Siege of Syracuse (414) 284 -- Chapter 24 Besiegers Besieged (414-413) 298 -- Chapter 25 Defeat and Destruction (413) 313 -- Part 6 Revolutions in the Empire and in Athens 325 -- Chapter 26 After the Disaster (413-412) 327 -- Chapter 27 War in the Aegean (412-411) 341 -- Chapter 28 Revolutionary Movement (411) 361 -- Chapter 29 Coup (411) 371 -- Chapter 30 Four Hundred in Power (411) 381 -- Chapter 31 Five Thousand (411) 392 -- Chapter 32 War in the Hellespont (411-410) 402 -- Part 7 Fall of Athens 415 -- Chapter 33 Restoration (410-409) 417 -- Chapter 34 Return of Alcibiades (409-408) 427 -- Chapter 35 Cyrus, Lysander, and the Fall of Alcibiades (408-406) 437 -- Chapter 36 Arginusae (406) 448 -- Chapter 37 Fall of Athens (405-404) 467.

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Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.