An Analysis and Summary of Thucydides: With a Chronological Table of Principal Events, Money, Distances, Etc. Reduced to English Terms; A Skeleton Outline of the Geography; Abstracts of All the Speeches, Index, Etc
An Analysis and Summary of Thucydides: With a Chronological Table of Principal Events, Money, Distances, Etc. Reduced to English Terms; A Skeleton Outline of the Geography; Abstracts of All the Speeches, Index, Etc
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...agreed upon; and though the rival states abstained for 6 years and 10 months from marching into each other's territory, yet during that doubtful suspension of arms, they did each other the greatest possible damage; and at length proceeded to open war. 26 Thucydides notices his peculiar means of information.--Thucydides ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...agreed upon; and though the rival states abstained for 6 years and 10 months from marching into each other's territory, yet during that doubtful suspension of arms, they did each other the greatest possible damage; and at length proceeded to open war. 26 Thucydides notices his peculiar means of information.--Thucydides wrote these transactions in order, by summers and winters, until the Lacedaemonians put an end to the sovereignty of Athens; and took the Long Walla and Piraeus. The whole war lasted 27 years, and some few days over, including the intervening time, which cannot be considered a state of peace; as neither party received or surrendered what they had agreed, and offences were committed on both sides, such as the Mantinean and Epidaurian wars, etc.; whilst the Thrace-ward allies were as much at war as ever, and the Boeotians had only a truce terminable at ten days' notice. Thus amongst the oracles published at the outbreak of hostilities, only one proved true, and that predicted that the war would last three 9 years. Thucydides lived through the whole of it; and being banished after commanding at Amphipolis, (iv. 107, ) he was present at the transactions of both parties, particularly at those of the Peloponnesians, and was thus enabled to obtain a perfect acquaintance with the events as they occurred. Corinthians intrigue with the Argives.--When the 27 peace was concluded, and the allies retired from the Peloponnesus, the Corinthians went to Argos, and communicated with the chief men in office there; and it was agreed, that as the Lacedaemonians had allied with the Athenians, who were the bitterest enemies of the Peloponnesus, every independent Greek state that was willing should be invited to enter into a defensive alliance with Argos, and that, f...
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