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1 Introduction to Greek and Roman History Lecture 6 Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War

2 431: The Thebans take Plataea Plataea

3 The Archidamian War, 431- 421 Naupactus

4 Leontini, 426

5 Sicily, 415-413

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7 Decelea

8 Tissaphernes Thuc. VIII.6 The King had lately called upon him for the tribute from his government, for which he was in arrears, being unable to raise it from the Hellenic towns by reason of the Athenians; and he therefore calculated that by weakening the Athenians he should get the tribute better paid, and should also draw the Lacedaemonians into alliance with the King; and by this means, as the King had commanded him, take alive or dead Amorges, the bastard son of Pissuthnes, who was in rebellion on the coast of Caria.

9 The Ionian War

10 War in the Hellespont


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