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THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
By Thucydides 431 BC
Translated by Richard Crawley

With Permission
to
CONNOP THIRLWALL
Historian of Greece
This Translation of the Work of His
Great Predecessor
is Respectfully Inscribed
by —The Translator—
Contents
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
BOOK II
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
BOOK III
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
BOOK IV
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
BOOK V
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
BOOK VI
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
BOOK VII
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
BOOK VIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
The State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. This belief was not without its grounds. The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection; and he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel; those who delayed doing so at once having it in contemplation. Indeed this was the greatest movement yet known in history, not only of the Hellenes, but of a large part of the barbarian world—I had almost said of mankind. For though the events of remote antiquity, and even those that more immediately preceded the war, could not from lapse of time be clearly ascertained, yet the evidences which an inquiry carried as far back as was practicable leads me to trust, all point to the conclusion that there was nothing on a great scale, either in war or in other matters.
For instance, it is evident that the country now called Hellas had in ancient times no settled population; on the contrary, migrations were of frequent occurrence, the several tribes readily abandoning their homes under the pressure of superior numbers. Without commerce, without freedom of communication either by land or sea, cultivating no more of their territory than the exigencies of life required, destitute of capital, never planting their land (for they could not tell when an invader might not come and take it all away, and when he did come they had no walls to stop him), thinking that the necessities of daily sustenance could be supplied at one place as well as another, they cared little for shifting their habit ............

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