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The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

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Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. This belief was not without its grounds. The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection; and he could see the rest of the Hel…

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  • AuthorThucydides
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #7142
  • Length204,536 words · 13h 38m of reading
  • Chapters27
  • DictionaryNot yet generated
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-28

Contents

27 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

  1. 01Translated by Richard Crawley
  2. 02CHAPTER I
  3. 03CHAPTER II
  4. 04Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon
  5. 05CHAPTER IV
  6. 06CHAPTER V
  7. 07CHAPTER VI
  8. 08CHAPTER VII
  9. 09CHAPTER VIII
  10. 10CHAPTER IX
  11. 11CHAPTER X
  12. 12CHAPTER XI
  13. 13CHAPTER XII
  14. 14CHAPTER XIII
  15. 15CHAPTER XIV
  16. 16CHAPTER XV
  17. 17CHAPTER XVI
  18. 18CHAPTER XVII
  19. 19CHAPTER XVIII
  20. 20CHAPTER XIX
  21. 21CHAPTER XX
  22. 22CHAPTER XXI
  23. 23CHAPTER XXII
  24. 24CHAPTER XXIII
  25. 25CHAPTER XXIV
  26. 26CHAPTER XXV
  27. 27CHAPTER XXVI

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