The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
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Donald Kagan
About this book
"This is a solid piece of scholarship, a readable, consistent, and understandable account of a difficult period in Greek history, and rife with astute and provocative observations on Thucydides."
― The Historian
Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.
Author / Editor information
Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University.
Reviews
This is a solid piece of scholarship, a readable, consistent, and understandable account of a difficult period in Greek history, and rife with astute and provocative observations on Thucydides.
---"The temptation to acclaim Kagan's four volumes as the foremost work of history produced in North America in the twentieth century is vivid.... Here is an achievement that not only honors the criteria of dispassion and of unstinting scruple which mark the best of modern historicism but honors its readers. To read Kagan's 'History of the Peloponnesian War' at the present hour is to be almost unbearably tested."-George Steiner, The New Yorker
---A profound analysis of the relation of strategy to politics, a sympathetic but searching critique of Thucydides' masterpiece, and a trenchant assessment of the voluminous modern literature on the war.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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Maps
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Abbreviations and Short Titles
13 - Part One. The Unraveling of the Peace
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1. A Troubled Peace
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2. The Separate League
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3 . The Alliance of Athens and Argos
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4 . The Challenge of the Separate League
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5 . The Battle of Mantinea
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6. After Mantinea: Politics and Policy at Sparta and Athens
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7. The Decision to Attack Sicily
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8. Sacrilege and Departure
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9 . Athenian Strategy and the Summer Campaign of 415
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10. The First Attack on Syracuse
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11. The Siege of Syracuse
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12. Athens on the Defensive
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13. Defeat on Land and Sea
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14. Retreat and Destruction
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Conclusions
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Bibliography
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General Index
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Index of Modern Authors
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Index of Ancient Authors and Inscriptions
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