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| Introduction | |
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| The Road to War | |
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| The Great Rivalry (479-439) | |
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| Sparta and its Alliance | |
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| Athens and its Empire | |
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| Athens Against Sparta | |
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| The Thirty Years' Peace | |
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| Threats to Peace: Thurii | |
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| The Samian Rebellion | |
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| "A Quarrel in a Far-away Country" (436-433) | |
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| Epidamnus | |
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| Corinth | |
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| Enter Athens (433-432) | |
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| The Battle of Sybota | |
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| Potidaea | |
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| The Megarian Decree | |
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| The Decisions for War (432) | |
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| Sparta Chooses War | |
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| The Athenian Decision for War | |
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| Pericles' War | |
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| War Aims and Resources (432-431) | |
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| Sparta | |
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| Athens | |
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| The Theban Attack on Plataea (431) | |
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| The Spartan Invasion of Attica | |
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| Attacks on Pericles | |
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| The Athenian Response | |
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| Pericles' Funeral Oration | |
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| The War's First Year: An Accounting | |
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| The Plague (430-429) | |
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| Epidaurus | |
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| The Plague in Athens | |
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| Pericles Under Fire | |
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| Peace Negotiations | |
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| Pericles Condemned | |
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| The Spartans go to Sea | |
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| Potidaea Recaptured | |
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| Pericles' Last Days (429) | |
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| Sparta Attacks Plataea | |
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| Spartan Action in the Northwest | |
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| Enter Phormio | |
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| The Spartans Attack Piraeus | |
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| The Death of Pericles | |
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| Rebellion in the Empire (428-427) | |
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| The "New Politicians" in Athens | |
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| Conspiracy on Lesbos | |
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| Athens Reacts | |
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| Mytilene Appeals to the Peloponnesians | |
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| The Siege of Mytilene | |
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| Sparta Acts on Land and Sea | |
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| The Fate of Mytilene | |
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| The Mytilene Debate: Cleon Versus Diodotus | |
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| Terror and Adventure (427) | |
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| The Fate of Plataea | |
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| Civil War at Corcyra | |
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| First Athenian Expedition to Sicily | |
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| New Strategies | |
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| Demosthenes and the New Strategy (426) | |
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| The Spartans in Central Greece | |
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| Athenian Initiatives | |
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| Demosthenes' Aetolian Campaign | |
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| The Spartans Attack the Northwest | |
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| Pylos and Sphacteria (425) | |
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| Athens' Western Commitments | |
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| Demosthenes' Plan: The Fort at Pylos | |
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| The Spartans on Sphacteria | |
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| The Athenian Naval Victory | |
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| Sparta's Peace Offer | |
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| Cleon Against Nicias | |
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| The Spartan Surrender on Sphacteria | |
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| Athens on the Offensive: Megara and Delium (424) | |
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| Cythera and Thyrea | |
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| Disappointment in Sicily | |
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| The Assault on Megara | |
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| Athens' Boeotian Invasion | |
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| Delium | |
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| Brasidas' Thracian Campaign (424-423) | |
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| The Capture of Amphipolis | |
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| Thucydides at Amphipolis | |
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| Truce | |
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| Nicias' Expedition to Thrace | |
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| The Coming of Peace (422-421) | |
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| Cleon in Command | |
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| The Battle of Amphipolis | |
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| The Death of Brasidas and Cleon | |
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| The Coming of Peace | |
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| The Peace of Nicias | |
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| The False Peace | |
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| The Peace Unravels (421-420) | |
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| A Troubled Peace | |
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| The Spartan-Athenian Alliance | |
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| The Argive League | |
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| Sparta's Problems | |
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| The Corinthians' Mysterious Policy | |
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| The Boeotians | |
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| The Alliance of Athens and Argos (420-418) | |
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| The Athenian Breach with Sparta | |
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| Spartan Humiliations | |
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| Alcibiades in the Peloponnesus | |
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| The Spartans Against Argos | |
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| Confrontation in the Argive Plain | |
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| The Battle of Mantinea (418) | |
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| Agis' March to Tegea | |
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| To Force a Battle | |
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| The Allied Army Moves | |
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| The Battle | |
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| Politics Intervene | |
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| The Meaning of Mantinea | |
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| After Mantinea: Politics and Policy at Sparta and Athens (418-416) | |
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| Democracy Restored to Argos | |
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| Politics at Athens | |
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| Ostracism of Hyperbolus | |
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| The Athenian Conquest of Melos | |
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| Nicias Against Alcibiades | |
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| The Disaster in Sicily | |
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| The Decision (416-415) | |
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| Athens' Sicilian Connections | |
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| The Debate in Athens | |
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| The Debate to Reconsider | |
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| The Home Front and the First Campaigns (415) | |
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| Sacrilege | |
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| Witch Hunt | |
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| Athenian Strategy | |
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| The Summer Campaign of 415 | |
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| The Flight of Alcibiades | |
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| The First Attack on Syracuse (415) | |
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| The Athenians at Syracuse | |
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| Syracusan Resistance | |
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| Alcibiades at Sparta | |
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| The Siege of Syracuse (414) | |
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| The Illness of Nicias and the Death of Lamachus | |
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| Athens Breaks the Treaty | |
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| Help Arrives at Syracuse | |
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| Nicias Moves to Plemmyrium | |
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| Nicias' Letter to Athens | |
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| The Athenian Response | |
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| The Besiegers Besieged (414-413) | |
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| Sparta Takes the Offensive | |
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| The Fort at Decelea | |
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| Reinforcements for Both Sides | |
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| The Capture of Plemmyrium | |
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| The Battle in the Great Harbor | |
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| The Second Athenian Armada: Demosthenes' Plan | |
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| The Night Attack on Epipolae | |
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| Retreat or Remain? | |
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| Eclipse | |
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| Defeat and Destruction (413) | |
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| The Final Naval Battle | |
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| The Final Retreat | |
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| The Fate of the Athenians | |
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| A Judgment on Nicias | |
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| Revolutions in the Empire and in Athens | |
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| After the Disaster (413-412) | |
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| The Probouloi | |
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| Spartan Ambitions | |
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| Agis in Command | |
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| Persian Initiatives | |
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| The Spartans Choose Chios | |
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| Alcibiades Intervenes | |
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| Tissaphernes' Draft Treaty | |
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| War in the Aegean (412-411) | |
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| Athens Fights Back | |
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| Decision at Miletus | |
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| Alcibiades Joins the Persians | |
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| A New Spartan Agreement with Persia | |
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| A New Spartan Strategy | |
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| Rebellion at Rhodes | |
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| The Importance of Euboea | |
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| A New Treaty with Persia | |
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| The Spartans in the Hellespont | |
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| The Revolutionary Movement (411) | |
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| The Aristocratic Tradition | |
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| Democracy and the War | |
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| Thrasybulus and the Moderates | |
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| The Real Oligarchs | |
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| Phrynichus Against Alcibiades | |
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| The Coup (411) | |
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| Peisander's Mission to Athens | |
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| The Oligarchs' Breach with Alcibiades | |
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| Divisions Among the Plotters | |
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| The Democracy Overthrown | |
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| The Oligarchic Leaders | |
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| The Four Hundred in Power (411) | |
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| The Democracy at Samos | |
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| Pharnabazus and the Hellespont | |
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| Alcibiades Recalled | |
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| The Five Thousand (411) | |
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| Dissent Within the Four Hundred | |
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| The Oligarchic Plot to Betray Athens | |
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| The Threat to Euboea | |
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| The Fall of the Four Hundred | |
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| The Constitution of the Five Thousand | |
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| The Five Thousand in Action | |
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| War in the Hellespont (411-410) | |
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| The Phantom Phoenician Fleet | |
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| The Battle of Cynossema | |
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| The Battle of Abydos | |
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| The Battle of Cyzicus | |
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| The Fall of Athens | |
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| The Restoration (410-409) | |
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| Sparta's Peace Offer | |
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| Democracy Restored | |
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| The War Resumed | |
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| The Return of Alcibiades (409-408) | |
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| Athens Attempts to Clear the Straits | |
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| Athenian Negotiations with Persia | |
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| Alcibiades Returns | |
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| Cyrus, Lysander, and the Fall of Alcibiades (408-406) | |
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| Prince Cyrus Replaces Tissaphernes | |
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| The Emergence of Lysander | |
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| The Collaboration of Cyrus and Lysander | |
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| The Battle of Notium | |
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| The Fall of Alcibiades | |
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| Arginusae (406) | |
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| The New Navarch | |
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| Conon Trapped at Mytilene | |
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| Athens Rebuilds a Navy | |
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| The Battle of Arginusae | |
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| Rescue and Recovery | |
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| The Trial of the Generals | |
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| The Fall of Athens (405-404) | |
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| Another Spartan Peace Offer | |
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| The Return of Lysander | |
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| The Battle of Aegospotami | |
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| The Results of the Battle | |
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| The Fate of Athens | |
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| Theramenes Negotiates a Peace | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sources for the History of the Peloponnesian War | |
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| Index | |