History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides · c. 431-400 BCE

Richard Crawley's translation, 1874. 26 parts, about 204,508 words, 16 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

The real cause I consider to be the one which was formally most kept out of sight. The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Lacedaemon, made war inevitable.
Book 1, 1.23 · Read it in Chapter I
For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb.
Book 2, 2.43 · Read it in Chapter VI
The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Book 5, 5.89 · Read it in Chapter XVII
At Corcyra, Thucydides writes, words changed their meanings: reckless daring passed for courage, prudent hesitation for cowardice, and moderation for a cover for weakness.
Book 3, 3.82
Of the Athenian force in Sicily, he says, few out of many came home, and this was the greatest action of the war and the most calamitous ever suffered by Greeks.
Book 7, 7.87

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Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by Richard Crawley. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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