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By Thucydides

Written B.C.E

Translated by Richard Crawley

Chapter VI

Beginning of the Peloponnesian War -First Invasion of Attica - FuneralOration of Pericles

The war between the Athenians and Peloponnesians and the allies on either side now really begins.

For now all intercourse except through the medium of heralds ceased, and hostilities were commenced and prosecuted without intermission.

Thucydides

The history follows the chronological order of events by summers and winters.

The thirty years' truce which was entered into after the conquest of Euboea lasted fourteen years. In the fifteenth, in the forty-eighth year of the priestess-ship of Chrysis at Argos, in the ephorate of Aenesias at Sparta, in the last month but two of the archonship of Pythodorus at Athens, and six months after the battle of Potidaea, ju