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    The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led...
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    The Second Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), often called simply the Peloponnesian War (Ancient Greek: Πόλεμος τῶν Πελοποννησίων, romanized: Pólemos tō̃n...
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    one of the two rivals in the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), against the Delian League, which was dominated by Athens. The Peloponnesian League is the modern...
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    His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father...
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    Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. The speech was supposed to have been delivered by Pericles, an eminent Athenian politician, at the end of the first...
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    Thespiae (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Herodotus. The Histories. 7.202-205. Herodotus. The Histories. 8.50. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 4.133. Larsen, J.A.O. (1955). The Boeotian...
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    Donald Kagan (category Cornell University Department of History faculty)
    scholars of Greek history and is notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. Kagan was born in Kuršėnai, Lithuania, on May 1, 1932, to...
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    a succinct list of the main events occurring between the end of the second Persian invasion and the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, but almost no chronological...
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    History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Huolongjing by Liu Bowen Infanterie Greift An by Erwin Rommel On Protracted War by Mao Zedong On War by...
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    Plataea (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    were unmolested until the commencement of the Peloponnesian War. In the spring of 431 BC, before war was formally declared, a party of 300 Thebans attempted...
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  • The siege of Melos occurred in 416 BC during the Peloponnesian War, which was a war fought between Athens and Sparta. Melos is an island in the Aegean...
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    Demosthenes (general) (category Athenians of the Peloponnesian War)
    Δημοσθένης, died 413 BC), son of Alcisthenes, was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War. The military activities of Demosthenes are first recorded...
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    early as 426 BC the Greek historian Thucydides inquired in his book History of the Peloponnesian War about the causes of tsunami, and was the first to argue...
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    is known of his life is largely according to Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Diodorus' Bibliotheca historica and a handful of other classical...
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  • The Peloponnesian War is a board wargame published by Simulations Canada (SimCan) in 1977 that simulates the 5th century BCE war between the Greek cities...
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    allies. Along with the Battle of Sybota, it was one of the catalysts for the Peloponnesian War. Potidaea was a colony of Corinth on the Chalcidice peninsula...
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  • Tao Te Ching, the Avesta, the Analects, the History of the Peloponnesian War, the Hippocratic Corpus and the Corpus Aristotelicum. List of best-selling...
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    Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War (2.43.4), a remembrance of the ancient warriors that defended Greek lands in old times. The Hellenic Army...
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    ancient Greece during the second year (430 BC) of the Peloponnesian War when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach. The plague killed an estimated...
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    Korkyra (polis) (category History of Corfu (city))
    361 Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.13. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.36.3 Herodotus, The Histories 3.48-52. Osborne...
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    Peltast (category Military units and formations of the Hellenistic world)
    Ancient sources Diodorus Siculus. History. Herodotus.The Histories Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon. Anabasis. Xenophon. Hellenica...
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  • Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War describes how the Athenians calculated the height of the wall of Platea by counting the number of bricks in...
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  • and Thucydides (History of the Peloponnesian War), Italus was the eponym of Italy (Italia). Aristotle, writing in the 4th century BCE, relates that, according...
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    Segesta (redirect from Temple of Segesta)
    in enumerating the allies of the Athenians at the time of the Peloponnesian War, distinctly calls the Segestans barbarians. At the same time they appear...
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  • Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Pericles uses it in a positive way when praising the Athenian democracy, contrasting it with hoi oligoi, "the few"...
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  • JSTOR 310410. Thucydides (1965-01-01), Dover, K. J. (ed.), "History of the Peloponnesian War", Thucydides: Book I, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oseo/instance...
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     22–23. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War, I.110. Herodotus, The Histories Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War Xenophon, Hellenica...
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  • The first Battle of Mantinea was fought in 418 BC during the Peloponnesian War. In this battle, Sparta and its Peloponnesian allies defeated an allied...
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    allies of Sparta, for launching a surprise attack without a declaration of war against Plataea, Athens' ally – an event that began the Peloponnesian War. The...
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  • Cleon (category Athenians of the Peloponnesian War)
    during the Peloponnesian War. He was an early representative of the commercial class in Athenian politics; which during the early Peloponnesian war was coming...
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