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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Thucydides (redirect from Thucydides, son of Olorus)
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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Pericles's Funeral Oration (redirect from Funeral Oration of Pericles)
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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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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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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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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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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Tsunami (redirect from Mathematics of Tsunamis)
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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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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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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Hellenic Army (redirect from History of the Hellenic Army)
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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Segesta (redirect from Temple of Segesta)
Peloponnesian War. Vol. 6.62. Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). Vol. 13.6. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War....
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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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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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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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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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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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Hoi polloi (redirect from The Great Unwashed)
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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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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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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Peloponnesian War, 1.115-117 Kagan, Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, 170 Meiggs, The Athenian Empire, 190 Kagan, Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War,...
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made up much of his story. The military history of Greece between the end of the second Persian invasion of Greece and the Peloponnesian War (479–431 BC)...
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