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Title. df229.t5m96 2013 938.05 –dc23 2012028445 isbn 978-0-521-84774-2 Hardback isbn 978-0-521-61258-6 Paperback Additional resources for this publication at www.cambridge.org/thucydidesmaps Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84774-2 - Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians Edited and Translated by Jeremy Mynott Frontmatter More information Contents List of maps page viii Preface xi Introduction xv Approaches xv Context xx Structure and character of the work xxvi Style and language xxix Translation and interpretation xxxiv Thucydides today xxxviii Principal dates xli Biographical notes xlv Greek deities, heroes and mythological figures liv Greek terms for distances, coinage and the calendar lvii the war of the peloponnesians and the athenians 1 Introduction [I 1–23.3] 3 Background to the war [I 23.4–146] 16 v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84774-2 - Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians Edited and Translated by Jeremy Mynott Frontmatter More information Contents First year of the war, 431–30 [II 1–47.1] 89 Second year of the war, 430–29 [II 47.2–70] 118 Thirdyearofthewar,429–28 [II 71–103] 135 Fourth year of the war, 428–27 [III 1–25] 162 Fifth year of the war, 427–26 [III 26–88] 177 Sixth year of the war, 426–25 [III 89–116] 218 Seventh year of the war, 425–24 [IV 1–51] 236 Eighth year of the war, 424–23 [IV 52–116] 266 Ninth year of the war, 423–22 [IV 117–35] 307 Tenth year of the war, 422–21 [V 1–24] 320 Eleventh year of the war, 421–20 [V 25–39] 338 Twelfth year of the war, 420–19 [V 40–51] 349 Thirteenth year of the war, 419–18 [V 52–56] 359 Fourteenth year of the war, 418–17 [V 57–81] 362 Fifteenth year of the war, 417–16 [V 82–83] 376 Sixteenth year of the war, 416–15 [V 84–116,VI1–7] 378 Seventeenth year of the war, 415–14 [VI 8–93] 391 Eighteenth year of the war, 414–13 [VI 94–105,VII1–18] 445 Nineteenth year of the war, 413–12 [VII 19–87, VIII 1–6] 463 Twentieth year of the war, 412–11 [VIII 7–60] 515 Twenty-first year of the war, 411–10 [VIII 61–109, unfinished] 547 Appendix 1 Notes on the Greek text: variations from the OCT 581 Appendix 2 Thucydides in the ancient world: a selection of texts 591 Bibliography and further reading 609 Synopsis of contents 615 vi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84774-2 - Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians Edited and Translated by Jeremy Mynott Frontmatter More information Contents Synopsis of speeches 624 Glossary 629 Index of names 640 General index 670 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84774-2 - Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians Edited and Translated by Jeremy Mynott Frontmatter More information Maps 1. Greece and the Aegean page lx–lxi 2. Peloponnese and Central Greece lxii 3. Western Asia Minor and Hellespont lxiii 4. Sicily and South Italy lxiv 5. Battle of Sybota (433) 30 6. The walls of Athens 64 7. Athenian and Peloponnesian leagues (431) 95 8. Invasions of Attica (431) 102 9. Operations in Acarnania and the north-west (429) 142 10. Phormio’s campaigns (429) 145 11. Sitalces’ kingdom 155 12. Plataea, the breakout (428/7) 173 13. Alcidas in Ionia (427) 178 14. Corcyra – the region and town 207 15. Campaigns of Demosthenes and Eurylochus in the west (426/5) 227 16. Amphilochia detail 228 17. Pylos (425) 254 18. Isthmus region 261 19. Megara 275 20. Brasidas’ march through Thessaly (424) 282 21. Delium campaign (424/3) 290 22. Chalcidice and Amphipolis 299 23. Amphipolis (422) 325 24.Mantinea(418) 367 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84774-2 - Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians Edited and Translated by Jeremy Mynott Frontmatter More information List of maps 25. Site map of Syracuse (415/14) 427 26. Walls and counter-walls at Syracuse (414) 448 27. Route of Demosthenes’ voyage (413) 472 28.Ionia 519 29. Peiraeus fortifications (411) 566 30. Hellespont and the Battle of Cynossema (411) 577 The maps are available for reference on the website www.cambridge.org/thucydidesmaps ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84774-2 - Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians Edited and Translated by Jeremy Mynott Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84774-2 - Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians Edited and Translated by Jeremy Mynott Frontmatter More information Preface Thucydides is a foundational author in the history of political thought. He stands at the very start of reflective thinking about politics in the western tradition and that in itself gives his voice a great freshness, force and originality. But it also presents us with some immediate problems of understanding, since the sort of distinctions we now make between political science, political theory, political history and the study of inter- national relations did not exist in his day, though he has on occasion been claimed as the originator of each of these modern ‘subjects’. One key aim of this series is to present each author and text in their proper cultural and historical context and to avoid importing into our understanding of them anachronistic concepts