The Fifth Book of Thucydides (Classic Reprint): Edited With Notes: Edited with Notes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The fifth Book begins with the expiration of this truce, when an expedition was made, urged by Cleon, in the hope of regaining Athenian ascendancy in Thrace. Exhausted as she must have been, Athens was able to despatch a strong force of chosen citizens, with the ?ower of the allies. But being, from party-intrigue or whatever cause, under the sole conduct of Cleon, the army was fore doomed to ruin. It did indeed recapture Torone, but was Shattered and dispersed in the fatal battle of Amphipolis. These events occupy the first thirteen chapters of the Book, and with them concludes the first period of the war. So far, or some few chapters further, the history seems to have been completed, and to have received its final revi~ sion, after the Peloponnesian war was over.

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