With Permission
to
CONNOP THIRLWALL
Historian of Greece
This Translation of the Work of His
Great Predecessor
is Respectfully Inscribed
by
—The Translator—
The State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of thePeloponnesian War
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between thePeloponnesians 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 anythat had preceded it. This belief was not without its grounds. The