BOOK Ⅰ 3
Ⅰ．The State of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War 3
Ⅱ．Causes of the War—The Affair of Epidamnus The Affair of Potid？a 16
Ⅲ．Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Laced？mon 37
Ⅳ．From the End of the Persian to the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War—The Progress from Su-premacy to Empire 51
Ⅴ．Second Congress at Laced？mon—Preparations for War and Diplomatic Skirmishes—Cylon—Pau-sanias—Themistocles 65
BOOK Ⅱ 84
Ⅵ．Beginning of the Peloponnesian War—First In vasion of Attica—Funeral Oration of Pericles 84
Ⅶ．Second Year of the War—The Plague of Athens—Position and Policy of Pericles—Fall of Potid？a 10qⅧ．Third Year of the War—Investment of Plat？a—Naval Victories of Phormio—Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under Sitalces 124
BOOK Ⅲ 141
Ⅸ．Fourth and Fifth Years of the War—Revolt of Mitylene 141
Ⅹ．Fifth Year of the War—Trial and Execution of the Plat？ans—Corcyr？an Revolution 173
Ⅺ．Sixth Year of the War—Campaigns of Demos-thenes in Western Greece—Ruin of Ambracia 193
BOOK Ⅳ 209
Ⅻ．Seventh Year of the War—Occupation of Pylos—Surrender of the Spartan Army in Sphacteria 209
ⅩⅢ．Seventh and Eighth Years of the War—End of Corcyr？an Revolution—Peace of Gela—Capture of Nis？a 231
ⅩⅣ．Eighth and Ninth Years of the War—Invasion of Boeotia—Fall of Amphipolis—Brilliant Suc-cesses of Brasidas 248
BOOK Ⅴ 282
ⅩⅤ．Tenth Year of the War—Death of Cleon and Bra-sidas—Peace of Nicias 282
ⅩⅥ．Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese—League of the Mantineans,Eleans,Argives,and Athe-nians—Battle of Mantinea and Breaking up of the League 296
ⅩⅦ．Sixteenth Year of the War—The Melian Con-ference—Fate of Melos 330
BOOK Ⅵ 338
ⅩⅧ．Seventeenth Year of the War—The Sicilian Cam-paign—Affair of the Herm？—Departure of the Expedition 338
ⅩⅨ．Seventeenth Year of the War—Parties at Syracuse—Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton—Dis-grace of Alcibiades 357
ⅩⅩ．Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the War—Inaction of the Athenian Army—Alcibiades at Sparta—Investment of Syracuse 373
BOOK Ⅶ 400
ⅩⅪ．Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the War—Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse—Fortification of Decelea—Successes of the Syracusans 400
ⅩⅫ．Nineteenth Year of the War—Arrival of Demos-thenes—Defeat of the Athenians at Epipol？—Folly and Obstinacy of Nicias 423
ⅩⅩⅢ．Nineteenth Year of the War—Battles in the Great Harbour—Retreat and Annihilation of the Athenian Army 429
BOOK Ⅷ 454
ⅩⅩⅣ．Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the War—Revolt of Ionia—Intervention of Persia—The War in Ionia 454
ⅩⅩⅤ．Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of the War—Intrigues of Alcibiades—Withdrawal of the Persian Subsidies—Oligarchical Coup d'？tat at Athens—Patriotism of the Army at Samos 476
ⅩⅩⅥ．Twenty-first Year of the War—Recall of Alci-biades to Samos—Revolt of Euboea and Down-fall of the Four Hundred—Battle of Cynossema 497