New history of the Peloponnesian War / Donald Kagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kagan, Donald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

History.

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

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 455 pages) : maps

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A New History of the Peloponnesian War is an ebook-only omnibus edition that includes all four volumes of Donald Kagan's acclaimed account of the war between Athens and Sparta (431-404 B.C.): The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Reviewing the four-volume set in The New Yorker, George Steiner wrote, "The temptation to acclaim Kagan's four volumes as the foremost work of history produced in North America in the twentieth century is vivid. . . . Here is an achievement that not only honors the criteria of dispassion and of unstinting scruple which mark the best of modern historicism but honors its readers. "All four volumes are also sold separately as both print books and ebooks.

Contents:

NEW HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

THE OUTBREAK OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

Contents

Preface

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

II. 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

A. The Willingness of the Members of the Delian League to Accept Athenian Leadership

B. The Historicity of Diodorus' Account of the Spartan Assembly in 475

C. Chronology of Events between ca. 470-453 D. Reconstruction of the Athenian Tribute Lists

E. The Papyrus Decree

F. The Foundation of Thurii

G. Athenian Actions in the West between the Wars

H. Athenian Treatment of Byzantium

I. The Date of Pericles' Pontic Expedition

] . The Site and Date of Brea

K. The Date of the Battle of Potidaea

Bibliography

General Index

Index of Ancient Authors and Inscriptions

Index of Modem Authors

THE ARCHIDAMIAN WAR

Abbreviations and Short Titles

1 . Plans and Resources; 2. The First Year of the War

3. The Plague and Its Consequences

4. The Third Year of the War: Phormio

5. The Revolt at Lesbos

6. Sicily and Corcyra

7. Demosthenes

8. Pylos and Sphacteria

9. Megara and Delium

10. The Coming of Peace

Conclusions

Appendix A: Pericles and Athenian Income

Appendix B: Pericles' Last Speech

Index of Modern Authors

THE PEACE OF NICIAS AND THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION

Contents

Abbreviations and Short Titles; Part One. The Unraveling of the Peace

1. A Troubled Peace

2. The Separate League

3. The Alliance of Athens and Argos

4. The Challenge of the Separate League

5. The Battle of Mantinea

6. After Mantinea: Politics and Policy at Sparta and Athens

Part Two. The Sicilian Expedition

7. The Decision to Attack Sicily

8. Sacrilege and Departure

9. Athenian Strategy and the Summer Campaign of 415

10. The First Attack on Syracuse

11. The Siege o f Syracuse

12. Athens on the Defensive

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780801467288

0801467284

OCLC:

1055389192