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The Peloponnesian War / Donald Kagan.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kagan, Donald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
- Greece.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 511 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2003.
- Summary:
- One of the world's foremost historians presents a fresh look at the greatest war of ancient Greece and a pivotal moment in Western civilization that still resonates today. 24 maps.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Road to War 1
- Chapter 1 The Great Rivalry (479-439) 3
- Sparta and its Alliance 3
- Athens and its Empire 7
- Athens Against Sparta 13
- The Thirty Years' Peace 18
- Threats to Peace: Thurii 20
- The Samian Rebellion 22
- Chapter 2 "A Quarrel in a Far-away Country" (436-433) 25
- Epidamnus 25
- Corinth 28
- Chapter 3 Enter Athens (433-432) 30
- The Battle of Sybota 34
- Potidaea 36
- The Megarian Decree 39
- Chapter 4 The Decisions for War (432) 41
- Sparta Chooses War 41
- The Athenian Decision for War 47
- Part 2 Pericles' War 55
- Chapter 5 War Aims and Resources (432-431) 57
- Sparta 57
- Athens 60
- Chapter 6 The Theban Attack on Plataea (431) 64
- The Spartan Invasion of Attica 66
- Attacks on Pericles 68
- The Athenian Response 70
- Pericles' Funeral Oration 73
- The War's First Year: An Accounting 74
- Chapter 7 The Plague (430-429) 76
- Epidaurus 76
- The Plague in Athens 78
- Pericles Under Fire 79
- Peace Negotiations 80
- Pericles Condemned 83
- The Spartans go to Sea 84
- Potidaea Recaptured 85
- Chapter 8 Pericles' Last Days (429) 87
- Sparta Attacks Plataea 87
- Spartan Action in the Northwest 90
- Enter Phormio 91
- The Spartans Attack Piraeus 96
- The Death of Pericles 97
- Chapter 9 Rebellion in the Empire (428-427) 99
- The "New Politicians" in Athens 99
- Conspiracy on Lesbos 100
- Athens Reacts 101
- Mytilene Appeals to the Peloponnesians 102
- The Siege of Mytilene 104
- Sparta Acts on Land and Sea 105
- The Fate of Mytilene 107
- The Mytilene Debate: Cleon Versus Diodotus 109
- Chapter 10 Terror and Adventure (427) 113
- The Fate of Plataea 113
- Civil War at Corcyra 114
- First Athenian Expedition to Sicily 118
- Part 3 New Strategies 123
- Chapter 11 Demosthenes and the New Strategy (426) 125
- The Spartans in Central Greece 125
- Athenian Initiatives 128
- Demosthenes' Aetolian Campaign 129
- The Spartans Attack the Northwest 132
- Chapter 12 Pylos and Sphacteria (425) 137
- Athens' Western Commitments 137
- Demosthenes' Plan: The Fort at Pylos 138
- The Spartans on Sphacteria 140
- The Athenian Naval Victory 142
- Sparta's Peace Offer 144
- Cleon Against Nicias 147
- The Spartan Surrender on Sphacteria 150
- Chapter 13 Athens on the Offensive: Megara and Delium (424) 157
- Cythera and Thyrea 157
- Disappointment in Sicily 159
- The Assault on Megara 162
- Athens' Boeotian Invasion 165
- Delium 167
- Chapter 14 Brasidas' Thracian Campaign (424-423) 171
- The Capture of Amphipolis 173
- Thucydides at Amphipolis 176
- Truce 178
- Nicias' Expedition to Thrace 180
- Chapter 15 The Coming of Peace (422-421) 182
- Cleon in Command 182
- The Battle of Amphipolis 185
- The Death of Brasidas and Cleon 187
- The Coming of Peace 187
- The Peace of Nicias 191
- Part 4 The False Peace 195
- Chapter 16 The Peace Unravels (421-420) 197
- A Troubled Peace 197
- The Spartan-Athenian Alliance 198
- The Argive League 200
- Sparta's Problems 203
- The Corinthians' Mysterious Policy 206
- The Boeotians 207
- Chapter 17 The Alliance of Athens and Argos (420-418) 210
- The Athenian Breach with Sparta 210
- Spartan Humiliations 215
- Alcibiades in the Peloponnesus 217
- The Spartans Against Argos 218
- Confrontation in the Argive Plain 221
- Chapter 18 The Battle of Mantinea (418) 228
- Agis' March to Tegea 228
- To Force a Battle 230
- The Allied Army Moves 234
- The Battle 235
- Politics Intervene 239
- The Meaning of Mantinea 241
- Chapter 19 After Mantinea: Politics and Policy at Sparta and Athens (418-416) 244
- Democracy Restored to Argos 244
- Politics at Athens 245
- Ostracism of Hyperbolus 245
- The Athenian Conquest of Melos 247
- Nicias Against Alcibiades 249
- Part 5 The Disaster in Sicily 251
- Chapter 20 The Decision (416-415) 253
- Athens' Sicilian Connections 253
- The Debate in Athens 254
- The Debate to Reconsider 256
- Chapter 21 The Home Front and the First Campaigns (415) 262
- Sacrilege 262
- Witch Hunt 264
- Athenian Strategy 267
- The Summer Campaign of 415 270
- The Flight of Alcibiades 273
- Chapter 22 The First Attack on Syracuse (415) 275
- The Athenians at Syracuse 275
- Syracusan Resistance 279
- Alcibiades at Sparta 280
- Chapter 23 The Siege of Syracuse (414) 284
- The Illness of Nicias and the Death of Lamachus 286
- Athens Breaks the Treaty 289
- Help Arrives at Syracuse 289
- Nicias Moves to Plemmyrium 291
- Nicias' Letter to Athens 293
- The Athenian Response 295
- Chapter 24 The Besiegers Besieged (414-413) 298
- Sparta Takes the Offensive 298
- The Fort at Decelea 299
- Reinforcements for Both Sides 300
- The Capture of Plemmyrium 301
- The Battle in the Great Harbor 303
- The Second Athenian Armada: Demosthenes' Plan 306
- The Night Attack on Epipolae 307
- Retreat or Remain? 308
- Eclipse 310
- Chapter 25 Defeat and Destruction (413) 313
- The Final Naval Battle 313
- The Final Retreat 316
- The Fate of the Athenians 319
- A Judgment on Nicias 321
- Part 6 Revolutions in the Empire and in Athens 325
- Chapter 26 After the Disaster (413-412) 327
- The Probouloi 328
- Spartan Ambitions 330
- Agis in Command 333
- Persian Initiatives 333
- The Spartans Choose Chios 335
- Alcibiades Intervenes 337
- Tissaphernes' Draft Treaty 339
- Chapter 27 War in the Aegean (412-411) 341
- Athens Fights Back 341
- Decision at Miletus 344
- Alcibiades Joins the Persians 346
- A New Spartan Agreement with Persia 349
- A New Spartan Strategy 351
- Rebellion at Rhodes 354
- The Importance of Euboea 356
- A New Treaty with Persia 357
- The Spartans in the Hellespont 358
- Chapter 28 The Revolutionary Movement (411) 361
- The Aristocratic Tradition 362
- Democracy and the War 364
- Thrasybulus and the Moderates 365
- The Real Oligarchs 367
- Phrynichus Against Alcibiades 368
- Chapter 29 The Coup (411) 371
- Peisander's Mission to Athens 371
- The Oligarchs' Breach with Alcibiades 373
- Divisions Among the Plotters 375
- The Democracy Overthrown 376
- The Oligarchic Leaders 379
- Chapter 30 The Four Hundred in Power (411) 381
- The Democracy at Samos 384
- Pharnabazus and the Hellespont 387
- Alcibiades Recalled 388
- Chapter 31 The Five Thousand (411) 392
- Dissent Within the Four Hundred 392
- The Oligarchic Plot to Betray Athens 393
- The Threat to Euboea 396
- The Fall of the Four Hundred 398
- The Constitution of the Five Thousand 398
- The Five Thousand in Action 400
- Chapter 32 War in the Hellespont (411-410) 402
- The Phantom Phoenician Fleet 402
- The Battle of Cynossema 403
- The Battle of Abydos 408
- The Battle of Cyzicus 410
- Part 7 The Fall of Athens 415
- Chapter 33 The Restoration (410-409) 417
- Sparta's Peace Offer 417
- Democracy Restored 420
- The War Resumed 424
- Chapter 34 The Return of Alcibiades (409-408) 427
- Athens Attempts to Clear the Straits 427
- Athenian Negotiations with Persia 431
- Alcibiades Returns 432
- Chapter 35 Cyrus, Lysander, and the Fall of Alcibiades (408-406) 437
- Prince Cyrus Replaces Tissaphernes 437
- The Emergence of Lysander 438
- The Collaboration of Cyrus and Lysander 441
- The Battle of Notium 442
- The Fall of Alcibiades 446
- Chapter 36 Arginusae (406) 448
- The New Navarch 448
- Conon Trapped at Mytilene 451
- Athens Rebuilds a Navy 452
- The Battle of Arginusae 454
- Rescue and Recovery 459
- The Trial of the Generals 461
- Chapter 37 The Fall of Athens (405-404) 467
- Another Spartan Peace Offer 467
- The Return of Lysander 469
- The Battle of Aegospotami 471
- The Results of the Battle 476
- The Fate of Athens 478
- Theramenes Negotiates a Peace 480.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0670032115
- OCLC:
- 51098177
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