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History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides translated by Benjamin Jowett

BOOK VIII

THE news was brought to Athens, but the Athenians could not believe that the armament had been so completely annihilated, although they had the positive assurances of the very soldiers who¹ had escaped from the scene of action.

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides translated by Benjamin Jowett

BOOK VII

GYLIPPUS and Pythen, after refitting their ships at Tarentum, coasted along to the Epizephyrian Locri. They now learned the truth, that Syracuse was not as yet completely invested, but that an army might still enter by way of Epipolae.

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides translated by Benjamin Jowett

BOOK VI

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides translated by Benjamin Jowett

BOOK V

WITH the return of summer the year of the truce expired, but hostilities were not resumed until after the Pythian games. During the armistice the Athenians removed the Delians from Delos; they considered them impure and unworthy of their sacred character by reason of a certain ancient offence.

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides translated by Benjamin Jowett

BOOK IV

IN the following summer, about the time when the corn comes into ear, ten Syracusan and ten Locrian ships took possession of Messen?in Sicily, whither they had gone by the invitation of the inhabitants.

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides translated by Benjamin Jowett

BOOK III

IN the following summer, when the corn was in full ear, the Peloponnesians and their allies, under the command of Archidamus, the son of Zeuxidamus, the Lacedaemonian king, invaded Attica, and encamping wasted the country.

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides translated by Benjamin Jowett

BOOK II

And now the war between the Athenians and Peloponnesians and the allies of both actually began. Henceforward the struggle was uninterrupted, and they communicated with one another only by heralds.

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

BOOK I

THUCYDIDES, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war in which the Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another.