The History of the Peloponnesian War
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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
- Length205,099 words · 13h 40m of reading
- Chapters27
- DictionaryIncluded
- 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.
- 01By Thucydides 431 BC
- 02CHAPTER I
- 03CHAPTER II
- 04Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon
- 05CHAPTER IV
- 06CHAPTER V
- 07CHAPTER VI
- 08CHAPTER VII
- 09CHAPTER VIII
- 10CHAPTER IX
- 11CHAPTER X
- 12CHAPTER XI
- 13CHAPTER XII
- 14CHAPTER XIII
- 15CHAPTER XIV
- 16CHAPTER XV
- 17CHAPTER XVI
- 18CHAPTER XVII
- 19CHAPTER XVIII
- 20CHAPTER XIX
- 21CHAPTER XX
- 22CHAPTER XXI
- 23CHAPTER XXII
- 24CHAPTER XXIII
- 25CHAPTER XXIV
- 26CHAPTER XXV
- 27CHAPTER XXVI
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