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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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I. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war, and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. This belief was not without its grounds. The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection; and he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel; those who delayed doing so at once having it in contemplation. [2] Indeed this was the greatest movement yet known in history, not only of the Hellenes, but of a large part of the barbarian world--I had almost said of mankind. [3] For though the events of remote antiquity, and even those that more immediately precede the war, could not from lapse of time be clearly ascertained, yet the evidences which an inquiry carried as far back as was practicable leads me to trust, all point to the conclusion that there was nothing on a great scale, either in war or in other matters.

There are a total of 90 comments on and cross references to this page.

Further comments from Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
book 1 (general note)
book 1, chapter 1 (general note)
book 1, chapter 1: Thoukudidês Athênaios
book 1, chapter 1: xunegrapse
book 1, chapter 1: ton polemon...Athênaiôn
book 1, chapter 1: arxamenos...kai elpisas
book 1, chapter 1: axiologôtaton tôn progegenêmenôn
book 1, chapter 1: tekmairomenos
book 1, chapter 1: paraskeuêi têi pasêi
book 1, chapter 1: to allo Hellênikon
book 1, chapter 1: xunistamenon pros
book 1, chapter 1: to de kai dianooumenon
book 1, chapter 1: kinêsis gar
book 1, chapter 1: tôn barbarôn
book 1, chapter 1: hôs eipein
book 1, chapter 1: epi pleiston
book 1, chapter 1: ta pro autôn
book 1, chapter 1: ta eti palaiotera
book 1, chapter 1: heurein
book 1, chapter 1: dia chronou plêthos
book 1, chapter 1: adunata
book 1, chapter 1: ek de tekmêriôn

Cross references from Perseus Encyclopedia:
thucydides [Thucydides and Homer]
thucydides [Thucydides' criteria for historical importance]
thucydides [Life]

Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
1136 [THE ARTICLE WITH PROPER NAMES]: Thoukudidês Athênaios
1147 [OTHER USES OF THE ARTICLE]: dia chronou plêthos
1310 [GENITIVE OF THE DIVIDED WHOLE (PARTITIVE GENITIVE)]: meros ti tôn barbarôn

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
347 [a) Singularform.]
349b [Bemerkungen über die Komparation der Adjektive, Adverbien und Verben.]
403 [Ellipse des durch das Attributiv näher zu bestimmenden Substantivs.]
405 [a) Substantive statt Adjektive in attributiver Beziehung.]
438 [2) Epi, bei, auf,]
450 [h. Wechsel der Präpositionen.]
462 [Weglassung des Artikels.]
462 [Weglassung des Artikels.]
465 [Gebrauch des Artikels bei Pronomen und Zahlwörtern mit und ohne Substantiv.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
492 [Asyndetische und syndetische Verbindung der Partizipien).]
500 [Konfirmatives dê.]
555 [Kasus des Relativs. — Attraktion oder Assimilation des Kasus.]
581 [Bemerkungen.]

Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
1, 0 [BOOK I]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
2, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 2, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 8, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 8, 3 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 59, 3 [Commentary on Book 2]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3:
3, 3, 1
3, 3, 1
3, 10, 4
3, 91, 2

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6:
6, 3, 2
6, 18, 6

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 4
8, 8, 2
8, 73, 1
8, 96, 1

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
4, 39
4, 39
4, 73
4, 74
4, 89
4, 89
4, 89

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5:
5, 27
5, 28
5, 49
5, 60
5, 60
5, 68
5, 77
5, 80

Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
5, 105 [Book 5 (e)]

Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
corcyra [Corcȳra]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
156 [Gnomic and Iterative tenses: Gnomic Aorist and Perfect.]
613 [Temporal Particles signifying Until and Before.: heôs, ophra, eis ho or eisoke, este, achri, mechri, until.]
669 [Simple Sentences in Indirect Discourse: Indicative and Optative after hoti and hôs, and in Indirect Questions.]
669 [Simple Sentences in Indirect Discourse: Indicative and Optative after hoti and hôs, and in Indirect Questions.]
747 [Object Infinitive not in Indirect Discourse.]
747 [Object Infinitive not in Indirect Discourse.]
749 [Object Infinitive not in Indirect Discourse.]
795 [Infinitive with to, after Adjectives and Nouns.]
881 [I. Not in Indirect Discourse.]
887 [I. Not in Indirect Discourse.]
858 [Adverbs connected with the Circumstantial Participle.]

Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
42, 540 [Appositive proper name without article. ]: Thoukudidês Athênaios
43, 612 [Third Position:]
6, 5, 127 [Attraction of the demonstrative by the predicate.]
667 [Predicate without the Article:]: kinêsis gar hautê megistê dê tois Hellêsin egeneto

Cross references from E. C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
1, 10, 3
1, 11, 2
1, 124, 3
1, 12, 3
1, 22, 4
1, 50, 1
1, 50, 2
1, 138, 3

Cross references from Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5:
5, 26
5, 26

Cross references from Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
1, intro [Introduction]

Cross references from Charles Forster Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7:
7, 53

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This text is based on the following book(s):
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.