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		Wars by land there were none, none at least by which power was acquired; we have the usual border contests, but of distant expeditions with conquest for object we hear nothing among the Hellenes.
		To come to this war: despite the known disposition of the actors in a struggle to overrate its importance, and when it is over to return to their admiration of earlier events, yet an examination of the facts will show that it was much greater than the wars which preceded it.
		After this Naxos left the confederacy, and a war ensued, and she had to return after a siege; this was the first instance of the engagement being broken by the subjugation of an allied city, a precedent which was followed by that of the rest in the order which circumstances prescribed.
	eserver.org /history/peloponesian-war.txt (19673 words)

	Peloponnesian War - Crystalinks
		The Peloponnesian War began in 431 BC between the Athenian Empire (or The Delian League) and the Peloponnesian League which included Sparta and Corinth.
		According to Thucydides, the cause of the war was the "fear of the growth of the power of Athens" throughout the middle of the 5th century BC.
		The war continues to fascinate later generations, both because of the way it engulfed the Greek world, and because the insight Thucydides provides into the motivations of its participants is deeper than what is known about any other war in ancient times.
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	Thucydides' Peloponnesian War
		Although the writings of the logographers were flawed as history when judged by Thucydides's high standards, nonetheless they did not consider themselves as story tellers in the epic tradition, but as inquirers, whose aim was to convey the truth to their readers through the application of rational criticism to their evidence.
		Sparta and her Peloponnesian league decided not to intervene in the conflict between Athens and Samos, but two incidents involving the Corinthian colonies of Corcyra and Potidaea brought Athens and the Peloponnesians to the brink of war.
		In the Peloponnesian war she again had the role of liberator with regard to the Greek states in the Delian league which had fallen subject to the tyranny of Athens.
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	Custom essay on History / Peloponnesian War - Essay Empire
		The trauma occasioned by the war and its aftermath was also strikingly fertile, for the war supplied the impetus for many of the social, political, and intellectual changes we identify with the fourth century and the period after the death of Alexander in 323 BC that we call the Hellenistic Age.
		Another historian might have seen a continuous war extending from 460 to 404, or three wars-one from 460 to 446, one from 431 to 421, and another beginning somewhere between 418 and 415 and continuing to 404.
		Students of historiography (the writing of history) use the expression "colligation," that is, "tying together," to describe the way historians "create" an event or a process by linking together separate events in such a way that they form a coherent whole.
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	NPR : The Peloponnesian War
		But the Peloponnesian War is a tragic story of virtue and ambition, of failed deterrence and military genius.
		The Peloponnesian War was actually a sequence of three conflicts, fought from 431 to 404 BC between the dominant city-states of Athens, master of an empire of allied states stretching across the Aegean Sea, and Sparta, which dominated its neighborhood through the Peloponnesian League.
		The war that would eventually diminish both city-states started as a regional conflict between the city of Corinth and one of its colonies.
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	Epic of the Peloponnesian War: Historical Commentary
		The Peloponnesian War is traditionally divided into three phases: the Archidamian War (431-421), the Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (420-413), and the Ionian War (412-404).
		The Peloponnesians, by contrast, had to return home for the harvest, and were also much more vulnerable to the effects of having their lands ravaged.
		At a war council, Alcidas was advised to sail for Mytilene anyway, in the hopes of catching the Athenians off guard; or, perhaps, he could sieze a city on the Ionian coast as a base to spread revolt.
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	Mike's History p 38 - Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Introduction.
		Thucydides explains why he wrote his history, what he believes were the most important causes of the war and why he thinks it was the greatest war ever.
		When the war began Athens was at the height of her greatest power, and her greatness had begun to cause fear and jealousy in the other Greeks.
		Thucydides, an Athenians, wrote the history of the war waged by the Peloponnesians and the Athenians against one another.
	www.galileolibrary.com /history/history_page_38.htm (254 words)

	The Peloponnesian War
		Before the onset of the Peloponnesian War, ancient Greece was an epicenter of great military, intellectual, cultural and political development; it was also a time of questioning and reexamination of religious and traditional beliefs.
		According to Thucydides the cause of the war is..
		When discussing Thucydides History, another common controversy is the question of the true cause of the Peloponnesian War.
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	Harvard University Press: History of the Peloponnesian War, I, Books 1-2 by Thucydides
		He tells about this, not in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence of his history of the war—that it befell him to be an exile for twenty years.
		The war was really three conflicts with one uncertain peace after the first; and Thucydides had not unified them into one account when death came sometime before 396.
		His history of the first conflict, 431–421, was nearly complete; Thucydides was still at work on this when the war spread to Sicily and into a conflict (415–413) likewise complete in his awful and brilliant record, though not fitted into the whole.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L108.html (365 words)

	Amazon.com: The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics): Books: Thucydides,M. I. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"History of the Peloponnesian War" is, superficially, merely an account of a war that happened centuries ago, the Peloponnesian War, between Athenas and Sparta.
		It is important to point out that in "History of the Peloponnesian War" you will find a painstaking account of many things that actually happened, but also some speeches that werent made by the actors, but could have been made by them.
		It is time-consuming to attempt the History of the Peloponnesian War.
	www.amazon.com /History-Peloponnesian-War-Revised-Classics/dp/0140440399 (2581 words)

	The History of the Peloponnesian War - Timeline Index
		History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, is an account of a war that happened centuries ago between Athenas and Sparta.
		He tried to explain the causes of the Peloponnesian War, without reducing its complexity by saying that the gods had motivated it.
		Thucydides was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens.
	www.timelineindex.com /content/view/1570 (291 words)

	history of peloponnesian war
		In 431, spurred on by a relatively trivial event in a distant part of the Greek mainland, Sparta and Athens fell into another war which is simply called, The Peloponnesian War." An overview.
		__ "The Peloponnesian War began in 431 BC between the Athenian Empire (or The Delian League) and the Peloponnesian League, lead by Sparta.
		The war was documented by Thucydides, an Athenian general and historian, in his work History of the Peloponnesian War." You will find an encyclopedic article with links to related materials.
	www.archaeolink.com /peloponnesian_war.htm (231 words)

	Peloponnesian War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shattering religious and cultural taboos, devastating vast swathes of countryside, and destroying whole cities, the Peloponnesian War marked the dramatic end to the fifth century golden age of Greece.
		At the beginning of the war, Thucydides was an Athenian general and statesman, a political ally of Pericles; in 424 BC, however, he was exiled for failing to protect a key city under his command, and his history was written at least in part during the twenty years he spent outside his native city.
		The war was officially ended by the Thirty Years' Peace, signed in the winter of 446/5 BC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peloponnesian_War (4676 words)

	The History of the Peloponnesian War By Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration
		The History of the Peloponnesian War By Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration
		For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.
		For it is not the miserable that would most justly be unsparing of their lives; these have nothing to hope for: it is rather they to whom continued life may bring reverses as yet unknown, and to whom a fall, if it came, would be most tremendous in its consequences.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/pericles.htm (1884 words)

	Gutenkarte » The History of the Peloponnesian War » Table of Contents / Preface
		THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR by Thucydides 431 BC translated by Richard Crawley
		CHAPTER II Causes of the War - The Affair of Epidamnus - The Affair of Potidaea
		CHAPTER XXV Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of the War - Intrigues of Alcibiades - Withdrawal of the Persian Subsidies - Oligarchical Coup d'Etat at Athens - Patriotism of the Army at Samos
	www.gutenkarte.org /section/7142/0 (589 words)

	Peloponnesian War - History for Kids!
		The Athenian historian Thucydides, who lived through the Peloponnesian War and wrote the history of it, began by asking, why did the war start?
		He answered that basically the war started because Athens was too greedy, and tried to take over all of Greece.
		The Spartans formed an alliance with Corinth and some other, smaller Greek cities, and brought an army to march to the walls of Athens in 441 BC.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/history/peloponnesian.htm (378 words)

	Powell's Books - The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides
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		A translation of Thucydide's history of the wars between Athens and Sparta is critically introduced.
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	Bookshelved Wiki: HistoryOfThePeloponnesianWar
		The period, after the Persian invasion of Greece (Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea), which was after the conquering of Babylon by the Medes, for those of you who think of history in terms of TheBible, and before the rise of the Macedonians (Philip, then his son Alexander the Great).
		Thucydides covers the periods following the Persian wars, how Athens rose in supremacy, how she became powerful in terms of both people, military and wealth as Athens took on the role of the guarantor of the freedoms of Greece against the Persian enemy.
		The History of the Peloponnesian War is an incredible example of this with all the parallels that can be drawn between Athens and the 21st century United States.
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	History Of The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides - Penguin UK
		History Of The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides - Penguin UK home
		Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war.
		He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780140440393,00.html (155 words)

	Amazon.de: History of the Peloponnesian War: English Books: Thucydides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thucydides, through the telling of a war, becomes one of the first to examine the complex relations that exist between states whose goals differ and are often in conflict, he redefines the concept of war in his time and sets the base for International Relations theorists from then on.
		Every chapter shines with brilliance and humanity, particularly the section on the plague which hit Athens when it was already in a crisis.
		An excellent account of the destructive war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 B.C. The book details three theaters of war--mainland Greece, Sicily and Asia Minor.
	www.amazon.de /History-Peloponnesian-War-Thucydides/dp/0674991214 (799 words)

	History of the Peloponnesian War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This conflict is called the "strata of composition" debate.
		League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians
		A Historian's Brief" in Conflict, Antithesis and the Ancient Historian, ed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War (1455 words)

	The History of the Peloponnesian War eBook
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		And the first person known to us by tradition as having established a navy is Minos.
		The History of the Peloponnesian War from Project Gutenberg.
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	Thucydides: Peloponnesian War (abridged): Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The History of the Peloponnesian War (Crawley translation) is available here is an abridged version prepared by Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, for use of Liberal Studies and Classics students.
		Nineteenth Year of the War - Arrival of Demosthenes - Defeat of the Athenians at Epipolae - Folly and Obstinancy of Nicias
		Twentieth and Twenty - first Years of the War - Intrigues of Alcibiades - Withdrawal of the Persian Subsidies - Oligarchical Coup d'Etat at Athens - Patriotism of the Army at Samos
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/thucydides/tofc.htm (675 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
		The History of the Peloponnesian War has been divided into the following sections:
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	History of the Peloponnesian War
		One of the world's great history books and the first true historical narrative of Western literature, Thucydides' chronicle of the disastrous 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta resonates with tales of heroism and villainy, deeds of courage and desperation, and the eternal folly of human conflict.
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		Monumental survey explores regional variations, virtues, and faults of city-states, discusses the fine arts, examines poesy and music, and presents perceptive accounts of enduring Greek achievements in philosophy, science, and oratory.
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