The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War A New History of the Peloponnesian War 1 1st Edition by Donald Kagan ISBN 0801495563 ‎ 978-0801495564

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ISBN 10:  0801495563  ‎ 

ISBN 13: 978-0801495564

Author:  Donald Kagan

“Kagan’s book is a contribution of considerable distinction, scrupulously fair, carefully argued, and lucidly written. And, what is more, it is persuasive…. Kagan sets out the story in detail and with acumen. The case has been adumbrated before―but never presented with such thoroughness.”―Journal of Interdisciplinary History

The first volume of Donald Kagan’s acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided?

Kagan takes issue with Thucydides’ view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war “cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved,” Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional organization, and foreign affairs. He further examines the evidence to see what decisions were made that led to war, at each point asking whether a different decision would have been possible.

Table of contents: 

1. The Spartan Alliance

2. The Origins of the Athenian Empire

3. Sparta after the Persian War

4. Athens after the Persian War

5. The War in Greece

6. The Crisis in the Aegean

7. The End of the War

8. The Victory of Pericles

9. The Foundation of Thurii

10. The Samian Rebellion

11. The Consolidation of the Empire

12. Athenian Politics on the Eve of the War

13. Epidamnus

14. Corcyra

15. Megara

16. Potidaea

17. Sparta

18. Athens

19. The Causes of the War

20. Thucydides and the Inevitability of the War

21. The Willingness of the Members of the Delian League

22. Athenian Actions in the West between the Wars

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