Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War -- Greek way of war -- Sparta, perceptions and prejudices -- Sparta and her allies -- Athenian democracy -- Athens and the navy -- Victory over Persia, 490-479 B.C. -- Athens or Sparta, a question of leadership -- Cimonian imperialism -- Sparta after the Persian Wars -- First Peloponnesian War -- Thirty years' peace.
Triumph of the radical democracy -- From Delian League to Athenian Empire -- Economy and society of imperial Athens -- Athens, school of Greece -- Crisis in Corcyra, 435-432 B.C. -- Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War -- Strategies and stalemate, 431-429 B.C. -- Athenian victory in northwest Greece -- Imperial crisis, the Chalcidice and Mytilene -- Plague, fiscal crisis and war -- Demagogues and stasis -- Pylos, 425 B.C., a test of leadership.
New leaders and new strategies -- Peace of Nicias -- Collapse of the Peace of Nicias -- From Mantinea to Sicily, 418-415 B.C. -- Sparta, Athens and the western Greeks -- Athenian expedition to Sicily -- Alcibiades and Sparta, 414-412 B.C. -- Conspiracy and revolution, 411 B.C. -- Alcibiades and Athens, 411-406 B.C. -- Defeat of Athens, 406-404 B.C. -- Sparta's bitter victory -- Lesons of the Peloponnesian War.
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