Chapter 11

THE PELOPONNESIAN WARS, AND THE FALL OF ATHENS.

Speech of Pericles for War.--THUCYD'IDES.

I. The First Peloponnesian War. Funeral Oration of Pericles.--THUCYDIDES. Comments on the Oration.--CURTIUS. The Plague at Athens.--LUCRETIUS. Death of Pericles.--CROLY: THIRLWALL: BULWER. Character of Pericles.--MITFORD.

II. The Athenian Demagogues. Cleon, the Demagogue.--GILLIES: ARISTOPH'ANES. The Peace of Ni'cias.

III. The Sicilian Expedition. Treatment of the Athenian Prisoners.--BYRON.

IV. The Second Peloponnesian War. Humiliation of Athens. Barbarities of the Contest.--MAHAFFY.