The outbreak of the Peloponnesian War / D. Kagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kagan, Donald.

Series:

A new history of the Peloponnesian War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History.

Greece.

Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 1989, c1969.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided?Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war "cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved," Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional organization, and foreign affairs. He further examines the evidence to see what decisions were made that led to war, at each point asking whether a different decision would have been possible.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations and Short Titles

Introduction

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

1. The Spartan Alliance

2. The Origins of the Athenian Empire

3. Sparta after 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 Foundation of Thurii

10. The Samian Rebellion

11. The Consolidation of the Empire

12. Athenian Politics 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. Thucydides and the Inevitability of the War

Appendixes

Bibliography

General Index

Index of Ancient Authors and Inscriptions

Index of Modern Authors

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780801467202

0801467209

9780801467219

0801467217

OCLC:

847572197