This site provides background and context for the readings from Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, in The Intellectual Revolution (JACT; Cambridge University Press, 1980 ):

Cleon at Sphacteria (Sections 1-12)

  • Book 4.26-40
  • site pages 1-17

The Mutilation of the Herms and the Profanation of the Mysteries (Sections 13-22)

  • Book 6.15-61
  • site pages 18-x

The Sicilian Expedition (Sections 22-42)

  • Books 6.30-32, 7.70-8.1
  • site pages x-x

 

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