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Sicilian disaster. Facing Syracuse, a democracy as big if not bigger than Athens, Athens loses. Demosthenes and Nicias put to death after numerous sea battles. Spartan gypippus there to help the syracusan s. Athens suffers total defeat. Overreaching Athens.

Lamachus dies fighting outside Syracuse. Syracuse in dire straits but the Spartans almost in place to assist.

Athenians invade Syracuse. Alcibiades, Corinthians and syracusan s all sleek Spartans. Sparta decides to aid Syracuse.

Sicilian syracusan hemocrates warns of impending Athenian invasion. Democrat syracusan athenagoras warns of oligarchy. No one doubts Sicily will unite to repel the Athenians.

Athenians decide to invade Sicily. Egesthians ask for help againstdorian Syracuse. Nician listen to him, instead Athenians listen to Alcibiades. Athens spends much treasure on the fleet. Big trouble coming!

Melina dialogue. Hones, frank, discussion about realities faced by each Greek city.

Battle of Manti ea: king agis victorious over argives and Athenians. Spartans clean up. Argos goes I to revolt. Manti eans give in to Sparta.

Epidauros besieged by argives and allies. Spartans come to help with their allies. On the point of attack king agis declines battle. Infuriating everyone. Athenians join the argives and head on to the battle of manitea.

Sparta and Athens agree to the peace of nicea. Sparta leaves allies in the lurch. Spartan allies do not agree to treaty. Argos stays on sidelines as usual.

Brasidas takes amphipolis; he dies in battle. People of amphipolis demolish statues of gagnon, and erect them in favor of brassicas, the spartan. Cleon led the Athenians. Clear ideas took over the peloponessians for Brasidas. Thucydides is pretty much sparse compared with Herodotus. Civil war sucks!

Brasidas and perdiccas pushed back at lycun. Perdiccas angry at brassicas, throws his support to the Athenians. Much skirmishing around Mende and scione. All this during a year Lon armistice.

Brasidias takes torone.

Hippocrates loses at delium, giving the Spartans a win. Demosthenes gets routed. Bras ideas takes amphipolis.

Brasidas marches through Thessaly and wins over much of the North Aegean without a fight. Acanthus and its colonies join the spartan cause.

Sicilians declare peace. See war as decline. Athenians punish sophocles and other generals who supported peace.

Athens victorious at pylos, sphacteria, and Cytheria. Spartans not used to fighting a mobile seaborn enemy.

At pylos Demosthenes builds fortifications. Just 45 miles from Sparta. Brigades attack bu cleon, dared by nicia, shows up with reinforce,ente and defeats the Spartans, having wisely enlisted Demosthenes.

Demosthenes leads acarnians to victory over the ambriocots, redeems himself for aetolia. Peloponnesians suffer great loss.

Demosthenes leads Athenians and allies against aegintum. Loses many men due to lack of light spear. Demosthenes does not go back to Athens but lays low.

Civil War in Corcyra: Athens and Sparta scuffle in near and around Corcyra; resulting in a horrible civil war. Thucydides discusses civil war and how general laws become repealed, ones which all would rather see left in place. Horrifying.

Mytilenians in Lesbos revolt. Sparta sends a fleet to support, alcidas took a peloponessian fleet to mytilene. Paches, the Athenian commander, subdued mytilene and the rest of lesbos. Athenians appalled that alcidas snuck by them, cleon the Athenian gives a great speech in favor of killing all mytilineans, diodotus gives. Stunning defense of mercy and self I Teresa. Distinguishing politics from justice.

Sitalces, of Thrace ordynisian wages war on perdiccas the Macedonia to no effect. Seuces, Sitalces major general, made a deal to end the campaign for perdiccas daughter. Phormio goes to atacanarnia and wages a little war. So ends the third year of war.

Naval battles with Athenian phormio. Cnemus on the spartan side leads the Spartans and Corinthians. Phormios fleet fights valiantly. Nothing really is resolved, except maybe that phormio is an excellent naval leader.

Siege of plataea. Plataeans invoke the united battle against Persia. Archidamus offers some generous deals but the plateaus decide to side with Athens. A comical seige ensues.

After the plague Pericles gives another stunning speech. Aristeus killed by sadocus. Potidea, being under seige for more than two years falls to Athens. Xenophon was one of the Athenian generals who took potidea. So ends the second year of the peloponnesian war.

Plague: affects mainly Athens. Sounds horrific, even in light of that zombie novel I just finished. Not sure why I am readi f the zombie novel. Thucydides seems lime a much better read. Anyway, Athenians seem to abandon religion and honor. Livi g in the moment and glad to be alive. Lightly populated Peloponnesus barely affected by plague.

Pericles Funeral Oration: thoughtful and intelligent rationale for the war.

Thebes Invades palatea. Gets kicked in the nuts. War starts. Archidamus leads Sparta to invade Attica, Pericles leads Athens to live within its walls, focusing on the sea. Countrified Athenians move into the pelasgian quarter.

SpartanUltimatum and Pericles Reply: Sparta wants peace, but at too high a price for the Athenians.pericles, son of Xanthipus, gives a genius speech basically guaranteeing war.

Pausanias and Themistocles, heroes of the Persian wars, had much in common. Their cases were used to foment the peloponessian war. Pausanias apparently went ver to the Persian side and wound up starved to death in Sparta. Themistocles also apparently went over to Persia and nearly suffers the same fate. He successfully flees athens and dies in Persia.