History of Greece : 499-404 B.C. / by K. C. Chaudhuri

Includes bibliography and index.

INTRODUCTION: A retrospect -- Kingdom of Lydia: relation with Grece and the Greeks -- Rise and expansion of the Median kingdom -- Rise and expansion of Persian empire: fall of the Lydian kingdom -- Darius and Ionia -- THE IONIAN REVOLT: Circumstances leading to the revolt -- Comparative strength and weakness of the parties on the eve of the Ionian revolt -- Results and consequences of the Ionian revolt -- Causes of the failure of the revolt -- THE PERSIAN INVASIONS OF GREECE: Second and third expeditions of Darius -- Herodotus' account of the battle of Marathon -- Importance of the battle of Marathon -- Causes of Athenian success in the battle of Marathon -- Miltiades -- THERMOPYLAE: ARTEMISIUM: SALAMIS: PLATEA: MYCALE: March of Xerxes -- Thermopylae -- Artemisium -- Salamis -- Plataea -- Mycale -- SPARTA AND ATHENS: PAUSANIAS AND THEMISTOCLES: Differences between allies manifest themselves -- Why Sparta failed to be an imperial power: her petty provincialism -- Role of Athens in the Persian war -- Pausanias -- Spartan attempt at forming a continental empire -- Themistocles -- Aristides -- CONFEDERACY OF DELOS: Origin of the confederacy -- organisation of the confederacy -- Action of the confederacy of Delos -- Transformation of the confederacy of Delos into an Athenian empire -- Athenian empire -- Cimon: his policy and condemnation -- ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION: Retrospect -- Athenian democracy put to tests -- Completion of Athenian democracy under Ephialtes and Pericles -- ATHENS UNDER PERICLES: Changed Athenian foreign policy -- Pericles: periclean imperialism -- PELOPONNESIAN WAR: Causes of the Peloponnesian war -- Pericles' responsibility for the war -- Towards hostilities -- Corinthian responsibility for the war -- Strength of the rivals -- Periclean strategy -- ARCHIDAMIAN WAR (431-421 B.C.): From the first invasion of Attica till the death of Pericles -- Funeral oration by Pericles -- Second year of the war -- Pericles' last speech -- Fourth year of the war: revolt of Mitylene -- Fall of Plataea -- Revolt of Corcyra -- Athenian intervention in Sicily -- Pylos and Sphacteria --Strategical and political significance of the capture of Pylos and Sphacteria -- Cleon -- New offensive -- Thracian campaign -- Peace of Nicias, 421 B.C. -- Brasidas -- Rise of the Demagogues -- SECOND PHASE OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: Alliance with Argos -- ATHENIAN EXPEDITION TO SICILY: Affairs of Segesta and Selinus -- Siege of the city of Syracuse -- Retreat of the Athenians -- Responsibility for Sicilian Catastrophe -- Consequences of Sicilian disaster -- The oligarchic revolution in Athens -- Nicias -- Alcibiades -- End of the war -- Persia's part in the Peloponnesian war: downfall of Athens -- Grievances of the subject allies of Athens -- Causes of Athenian downfall -- Lysander -- GREECE IN THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C.: Athenians in the fifth century B.C. -- Athenian economy in the fifth century -- Greek philosophy -- Socrates -- Greek literature -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Aeschylus -- Aristophanes -- History -- Herodotus -- Thucydides -- Contrast between Herodotus and Thucydides -- Attic drama: a resume -- Comedies -- ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF PERICLEAN GREECE: Contribution of Greece to world literature -- SUPPLEMENTARY TOPICS: Spartan institutions in the fifth century B.C. -- Society -- The army -- Corcyraean speech in the Athenian Assembly -- Corinthian speech in the Athenian Assembly -- Corinthian speech in the Lacedaemonian Congress -- Athenian Envoy's speech at the Lacedaemonian Congress -- Speech of Archidamus -- Speech of Nicias in the Athenian Assembly -- Alcibiades' speech in reply to that of Nicias -- Nicias' second speech in defence of his policy -- Historical value of the speeches introduced by Thucydides