Book I I. The State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War II. Causes of the War--The Affair of Epidamnus--The Affair of Potidaea III. Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon IV. From the end of the Persian to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War--The Progress from Supremacy to Empire V. Second Congress at Lacedaemon--Preparations for War and Diplomatic Skirmishes--Cylon--Pausanias--Themistocles Book II VI. Beginning of the Peloponnesian War--First Invasion of Attica--Funeral Oration of Pericles VII. Second Year of the War--The Plague of Athens--Position and Policy of Pericles--Fall of Potidaea VIII.

Third Year of the War--Investment of Plataea--Naval Victories of Phormio--Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under Sitalces Book III IX. Fourth and Fifth Years of the War--Revolt of Mitylene X. Fifth Year of the War--Trial and Execution of the Plataeans--Corcyraean Revolution XI. Sixth Year of the War--Campaigns of Demosthenes in Western Greece--Ruin of Ambracia Book IV XII. Seventh Year of the War--Occupation of Pylos--Surrender of the Spartan Army in Sphacteria XIII. Seventh and Eighth Years of the War--End of Corcyraean Revolution--Peace of Gela--Capture of Nisaea XIV. Eighth and Ninth Years of the War--Invasion of Boeotia--Fall of Amphipolis--Brilliant Success of Brasidas Book V XV. Tenth Year of the War--Death of Cleon and Brasidas--Peace of Nicias XVI.

Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese--League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians--Battle of Mantinea and Breaking up of the League XVII. Sixteenth Year of the War--Melian Conference--Fate of Melos Book VI XVIII. Seventeenth Year of the War--The Sicilian Campaign--Affair of the Hermae--Departure of the Expedition XIX. Seventeenth Year of the War--Parties at Syracuse--Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton--Disgrace of Alcibiades XX. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the War--Inaction of the Athenian Army--Alcibiades at Sparta--Investment of Syracuse Book VII XXI. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the War--Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse--Fortification of Decelea--Successes of the Syracusans XXII. Nineteenth Year of the War--Arrival of Demosthenes--Defeat of the Athenians at Epipolae--Folly and Obstinacy of Nicias XXIII. Nineteenth Year of the War--Battles in the Great Harbour--Retreat and Annihilation of the Athenian Army Book VIII XXIV.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the War--Revolt of Ionia--Intervention of Persia--The War in Ionia XXV. Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of the War--Intrigues of Alcibiades--Withdrawal of the Persian Subsidies--Oligarchical Coup d'Etat at Athens--Patriotism of the Army at Samos XXVI. Twenty-first Year of the War--Recall of Alcibiades to Samos--Revolt of Euboea and Downfall of the Four Hundred--Battle of Cynossema Maps.