- Book 1[24]
- The state of Greece from the earliest times to the commencement of the Peloponnesian War, also known as the Archaeology. 1.1–1.19.
- Methodological excursus. 1.20–1.23
- Causes of the war (433–432 BC) 1.24–1.66
- The Affair of Epidamnus. 1.24–1.55
- The Affair of Potidaea. 1.56–1.66
- Congress of the Peloponnesian League at Lacedaemon. 1.67–1.88
- The Speech of the Corinthians. 1.68–1.71
- The Speech of the Athenian envoys. 1.73–1.78
- The Speech of Archidamus. 1.80–1.85
- The Speech of Sthenelaidas. 1.86
- From the end of the Persian War to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, also known as the Pentecontaetia. 1.89–1.117
- The progress from supremacy to empire.
- Second congress at Lacedaemon and the Corinthian Speech. 1.119–1.125
- Diplomatic maneuvering. 1.126–1.139
- Excursus on Cylon. 1.126–1.127
- Excursus on Pausanias and Themistocles. 1.128–1.138
- Pericles' first speech. 1.140–1.145
- Book 2 (431–428 BC)
- War begins with Thebes' attempt to subvert Plataea. 2.1–2.6
- Account of the mobilization of and list of the allies of the two combatants. 2.7–2.9
- First invasion of Attica. 2.10–2.23
- Archidamus leads the Peloponnesian army into Attica. 2.10–2.12
- Athenian preparations and abandonment of the countryside. 2.13–2.14
- Excursus on Athenian synoikism. 2.15–2.16
- Difficult conditions in Athens for refugees from countryside. 2.17
- Archidamus ravages Oenoe and Acharnai. 2.18–2.20
- Athenian fury and anger at Pericles. 2.21–2.22
- Athenian naval counterattacks along coast of Peloponnese and islands. 2.23–2.32
- Pericles' Funeral Oration. 2.34–2.46
- The plague of Athens. 2.47–2.54
- Second invasion of Attica and Athenian naval counterattacks. 2.55–2.58
- Pericles' third speech, defending his position and policy. 2.59–2.64
- Thucydides' estimate of Pericles' qualities and the causes for Athens' eventual defeat. 2.65
- Diplomacy and skirmishes in Thrace, the islands, and the Northeast. 2.66–2.69
- Fall of Potidaea. 2.70
- Investment of Plataea. 2.71–2.78
- Naval victories of Phormio in the Northeast. 2.80–2.92
- Threat of raid on the Piraeus. 2.93–2.94
- Thracian campaign in Macedonia under Sitalces. 2.95–2.101
- Book 3 (428–425 BC)
- Annual invasion of Attica. 3.1
- Revolt of Mytilene. 3.2–3.50
- Speech of Mytilenian envoys to Sparta at Olympia, asking for help. 3.9–3.14
- Sparta accepts Lesbos as an ally and prepares to counter the Athenians. 3.15
- Mytilene surrenders to Athens despite Spartan support. 3.28
- Mytilenian Debate. 3.37–3.50
- Fall of Plataea. 3.20–3.24, 3.52–68
- Some Plataeans escape. 3.20–3.24.
- Plataea surrenders. 3.52.
- Trial and execution of the Plataeans. 3.53–3.68.
- Speech of Plataeans, 3.53–3.59
- Speech of the Thebans. 3.61–3.67
- Revolution at Corcyra. 3.70–3.85
- Thucydides' account of the evils of civil strife. 3.82–3.84
- Athenian campaigns in Sicily. 3.86, 3.90, 3.99, 3.103, 3.115–3.116
- Tsunami and inquiry into its causes 3.89.2–5
- Campaigns of Demosthenes in western Greece. 3.94–3.98, 3.100–3.102, 3.105–3.114
- Spartans establish Heraclea in Trachis. 3.92–3.93
- Athenians purify Delos. 3.104
- Book 4 (425–423 BC)
- Annual invasion of Attica. 4.2
- Athenians en route to Sicily occupy Pylos in the Peloponnese. 4.2–4.6
- King Agis of Sparta cuts short the invasion of Attica to return to the Peloponnese. 4.6
- Concerted Spartan attack on the Athenian fort at Pylos. 4.8–4.15
- The Athenian general Demosthenes coordinates the defense of Pylos and rouses the troops with a speech. 4.9–4.10
- The Spartan commander Brasidas distinguishes himself for bravery. 4.11–4.12
- The Athenians defeat the Spartan assault on Pylos and cut off a garrison of Spartiates on the adjacent island of Sphacteria. 4.13–4.14
- The Spartans, concerned for the men on the island, conclude an immediate armistice and send an embassy to Athens to negotiate peace. 4.13–4.22
- The speech of the Spartan ambassadors offers to peace and alliance to Athens in exchange for the return of the men on Sphacteria. 4.17–4.20
- The Athenian Cleon, speaking in the Assembly, encourages the Athenians to demand the return of the territories surrendered by Athens at the conclusion of the First Peloponnesian War. 4.21–4.22
- Events in Sicily. 4.24–4.25
- Siege of the Spartiates on Sphacteria continues without result. 4.26–4.27
- Cleon takes command at Pylos. 4.27–4.29
- Battle of Sphacteria results in the capture of all the Spartiates trapped there. 4.29–4.41
- Nicias leads an Athenian attack on Corinth. 4.42–4.45
- End of Corcyraean revolution. 4.46–4.48
- Athenians capture Cythera, an island off the Peloponnese, and Thyrea, a town in the Peloponnese. Sparta is hemmed in on all sides and desperate. 4.53–4.57
- Sicilian cities make peace in conference at Gela, frustrating Athenian designs on the island. 4.58–65
- Speech of Hermocrates at Gela. 4.59–4.64
- Athenian attack on Megara. 4.66–4.74
- Capture of Nisaea. 4.69
- Inconclusive engagements at Megara. 4.73
- Megara eludes Athenian capture. 4.74
- Invasion of Boeotia. 4.76, 4.89–4.101.2
- Battle of Delium results in Athenian retreat into a temple, which the Boeotians attack and burn down. 4.90–4.100
- Brasidas marches through Thessaly to Thrace and begins to cause Athenian subject cities to revolt. 4.78–4.88
- Speech of Brasidas to the Acanthians. 4.85–4.87
- Fall of Amphipolis to Brasidas. 4.102–4.108
- Continued successes of Brasidas in Thrace. 4.111–4.135
- Brasidas secures the revolt of the garrison of Torone. 4.110–4.116
- One–year armistice between Athenians and Spartans. 4.117–4.118
- Scione revolts from Athens to Brasidas. 4.120–4.123
- Truce breaks down. 4.122–4.123.
- Athenians retake Mende and besiege Scione. 4.129–4.131.
- Book 5 (422–415 BC)
- Death of Cleon and Brasidas. 5.10
- Peace of Nicias. 5.13–5.24
- Feeling against Sparta in the Peloponnese
- League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians. 5.27–5.48
- Battle of Mantinea and breaking up of the League. 5.63–5.81
- The Melian Dialogue. 5.84–5.113
- Fate of Melos. 5.116
- Book 6 (415–414 BC)
- The Sicilian Expedition. 6.8–6.52
- Early history of Sicily. 6.1–6.6
- Speeches of Nicias and Alcibiades. 6.8–6.26
- Affair of the Hermae. 6.27–6.29, 6.53
- Departure of the expedition to Sicily. 6.30–6.32
- Speeches of Hermocrates and Athenagoras at Syracuse. 6.33–41
- Arrival of Athenians in Sicily. 6.42–52
- Digression on Harmodius and Aristogiton. 6.53–6.58
- Recall and flight of Alcibiades. 6.60–6.61
- Athenian victory at Syracuse. 6.62–6.71
- Debate between Hermocrates and Euphemus at Camarina. 6.72–6.88
- Alcibiades at Sparta. 6.88–6.93
- Athenian victories at Syracuse. 6.94–103
- Spartans dispatch Gylippus to Sicily and clash with Athens at Argos. 6.104–105
- The Sicilian Expedition. 6.8–6.52
- Book 7 (414–413 BC)
- Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse. 7.1–7.3
- Fortification of Decelea. 7.19–7.30
- Successes of the Syracusans.
- Arrival of Demosthenes
- Defeat of the Athenians at Epipolae. 7.42–7.59
- Folly and obstinacy of Nicias
- Battles in the Great Harbour
- Retreat and annihilation of the Athenian army. 7.72–7.87
- Book 8 (413–411 BC)
- Disbelief and despair in Athens. 8.1
- Allies revolt. 8.2–4
- Persians offer support to Sparta. 8.5
- Isthmian Festival. 8.9
- Alcamenes. 8.10
- Alcibiades encourages Endius to revolt. 8.12
- Alcibiades encourages Chios to revolt. 8.14
- Athens reverses law on reserve funds. 8.15
- Sparta and Persian alliance. 8.18
- Chians encourage revolt. 8.19
- Samos commons overthrow upper classes. 8.21
- Chians and Spartans v Athens and Argos; Ionians defeat Dorians. 8.25
- Hermocrates prepares “finishing blow” to Athens, Alcibiades in Teichiussa. 8.26
- Phrynichus = a “man of sense” retreats. 8.27
- Tissaphernes distributes pay to Spartans. 8.29
- The Spartan treaty with Persia. 8.37
- Conflict between Pedaitus and Astyochus. 8.39
- Slaves desert Chios. 8.40
- Lichas tries to renegotiate treaty with Persia. The Spartans give not liberty but a “Median master” to the Greeks. 8.43
- Rhodes revolts. 8.44
- Astyochus is ordered to kill Alcibiades, who flees from Sparta to Tissaphernes. 8.45
- Alcibiades advises Tissaphernes to let Athens and Sparta wear each other out. 8.46
- Alcibiades plots his return to Athens. 8.47–8.48
- Pissander to pave way for Alcibiades’ return. 8.49
- Alcibiades betrays Phrynichus. 8.50
- Phrynichus fortifies Samos. 8.51
- Alcibiades encourages Tissaphernes to befriend Athens. 8.52
- Pisander in Athens proposes deal: alliance with Persia, end of democracy, return of Alcibiades. 8.53–8.54
- Athens defeats Chians, Pedaritus. 8.55
- Alcibiades’ plans w/ Tissaphernes unravel. 8.56
- Tissaphernes resolves to keep both sides equal, pays Sparta. 8.57
- another treaty bet Persia and Sparta. 8.58–8.59
- Pisander est. oligarchy in Athens, confusion in Samos. 8.63
- Oligarchy in Athens, popular leaders are killed. “government of the 5,000.” 8.65
- Oligarchy triumphant. 8.65
- Popular party suspicious of each other. 8.66
- Commissioners to frame a new constitution = tyranny of the four hundred. 8.67
- Pisander, Phrynichus, Theramenes = leaders of the oligarchy. 8.68
- The 400 with daggers dismiss the council (Boule) . 8.69
- Oligarchs offer to make peace with Sparta. 8.70
- Spartan forces move to Athens’ walls. Oligarchs again offer peace w/ Sparta. 8.71
- Seamen at Samos reject oligarchy. 8.72
- Turmoil at Samos, the Athenian crews est democracy, kill 30 oligarchs. 8.73
- Exaggerated report at Samos of horrors at Athens. 8.74
- Thrasybullus and Thrasyllus leaders of the democratic faction in Samos. 8.75
- The army replaces oligarchy in Samos, Alcibiades promises alliance with Persia. 8.76
- Debate in Samos. 8.77
- Pelop soldiers anxious to fight, Astyochus unwilling to fight at sea. Tissaphernes fleet never arrives. 8.78
- Athenians reinforced, Pelop unwilling to fight. 8.79
- Revolt of Byzantium. 8.80
- Alcibiades recalled, promises Persian aid. 8.81
- Alcibiades elected general, “put all their affairs in his hands. 8.82
- Tissaphernes fails to pay Spartan soldiers. 8.83
- Pelop sailors threaten Astyochus, who is recalled and replaced by Mindarus. 8.84
- Hermocrates is banished from Syracuse, he opposes Sparta’s alliance with Persia. 8.85
- Alcibiades prevents Samian soldiers’ attack on Athens, calls for end to the 400. 8.86
- Tissaphernes/Persia continues policy of letting Athens and Sparta wear each other out. 8.87
- Alcibiades knew Tissaphernes would never send ships to support Sparta. 8.88
- Oligarchs in Athens break ranks, Thermenes and Aristocrates fear Alcibiades power in Samos. 8.89
- Phrynichus, Aristarchus, Pisander, and Antiphon most opposed to Democracy, again appeal to Sparta. Fortify the Piraeus. 8.90
- The oligarchs’ plans. 8.91
- The oligarchy collapses. 8.92
- Oligarchs and soldiers meet on Acropolis and agree to reforms. 8.93
- Pelop ships appear. 8.94
- Pelop ships defeat Athenians, Euboea revolts. 8.95
- Athens despairs. “Lacedaemonians proved the most convenient people in the world for the Athenians to be at war with.” 8.96
- The 400 are deposed, the 5000 the “best government” in Thuc's lifetime. A “hoplite democracy,” no pay for public service (i.e. no thetes). 8.97
- Pisander and Alexicles withdraw to Decelea, Aristarchus takes barbarian archers to Oenoe. The oligarchy is over. 8.98
- Thrasybulus and Thrasyllus victory at sea renews Athens’ hope. 8.103–8.106
- Alcibiades returns. 8.108
- Abrupt ending of the history. 8.109
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