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THE OUTBREAK OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

Donald Kagan

 
 

Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, 1969, 419 pgs., index, bibliography, paperback

 
 

Reviewer Comments:
This is volume One of the four in the series that descripe the Peloponnesian War. It is an extraordinary and masterful work of scholarship.

 
 

Preface

 
 

Part One The Alliance System and the Division of the Greek World

 
 

1 - The Spartan Alliance

 
 

2 - The Origins of the Athenisn Empire

 
 

3 - Sparta afer the Persian War

 
 

4 - Athens after the Persian War

 
 

Part Two The First Peloponnesian War

 
 

5 - The War in Greece

 
 

6 - The Crisis in the Aegean

 
 

7 - The End of the War

 
 

Part Three The Years of Peace

 
 

8 - Athenian Politics: The Victory of Pericles

 
 

9 - Athens and the West: The Foudation of Thurii

 
 

10 - The Samian Rebellion

 
 

11 - The Consolidation of the Empire

 
 

12 - Athenian Poltics on the Eve of the War

 
 

Part Four The Final Crisis

 
 

13 - Epidamnus

 
 

14 - Corcyra

 
 

15 - Megara

 
 

16 - Potidaea

 
 

17 - Sparta

 
 

18 - Athens

 
 

Part Five Conclusions

 
 

19 - The Causes of the War

 
 

20 - Thucydidies and the Inevitability of the War

 
 

Appendixes - A to K

 
 

Chronology of Events between ca. 470 - 453

 
 

 

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