THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
by Thucydides 431 BC

translated by Richard Crawley




With Permission
to
CONNOP THIRLWALL
Historian of Greece
This Translation of the Work of His
Great Predecessor
is Respectfully Inscribed
by
-The Translator-




CONTENTS


BOOK I

CHAPTER I
The state of Greece from the earliest Times to the
Commencement of the Peloponnesian War