List of Maps
Translator’s Note, by Walter Blanco
Introduction, by Jennifer Roberts
The Text of The Peloponnesian War
　Book 1
　Book 2
　Book 3
　Book 4
　Book 5
　Book 6
　Book 7
　Book 8
Backgrounds and Contexts
　Xenophon ? Hellenica, Book 1
　　Book 2, Chapters 1–3
　Herodotus ? The Histories
　　Book 2, Chapters 111–20
　　Book 3, Chapters 80–88
　Plato ? Gorgias, 479d–484c 488b–492c
　Niccolò Machiavelli ? The Prince, Chapters 18 and 25 ? The Discourses, Book 1, Chapter 39 and 53
　　Book 3, Chapter 16
　Thomas Hobbes ? To the Reader ? Leviathan, Part 1, Chapter 13
　Walter Karp ? The Two Thousand Years’ War
Interpretations
　Theodor Gomperz ? [Secular Thucydides]
　Francis M. Cornford ? [Thucydides and the Irrational]
　Charles N. Cochrane ? [Thucydides, Cornford, and History]
　R. G. Collingwood ? [Greek Thought and the Writing of History]
　Albert Cook ? Particular and General in Thucydides
　Cynthia Farrar ? [Historical Understanding and the Polis]
　Adam Parry ? Thucydides’ Historical Perspective
　Glen Bowersock ? The Personality of Thucydides
　Robert Gilpin ? The Theory of Hegemonic War
　Michael Doyle ? Thucydides: A Realist?
　Gregory Crane ? Truest Causes and Thucydidean Realisms
Chronology
　The Principal Combatants at the Outbreak of the War
　The Kings of Sparta during the Peloponnesian War and the Kings of Persia during the Fifth Century
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index of Places and People
Index of Important Figures