Peloponnesian War Sources

Primary sources and ancient secondary sources on the Peloponnesian War.

Related Resources • Peloponnesian War Timeline • Pericles • Delian League • After the Peloponnesian War

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Aristophanes | Diodorus Siculus | Nepos | Plutarch | Thucydides | Xenophon

Thucydides

• Greek text (Perseus Project)
• Richard Crawley: English translation (Perseus Project)
• Richard Crawley: English translation in 8 html files (MIT)

Xenophon

• Hellenica in Greek (Perseus Project)
• Carleton L. Brownson: Hellenica in English translation (Perseus Project)

Diodorus Siculus

• Library in Greek (Perseus Project)
• C. H. Oldfather: Library in English translation (Perseus Project)

Plutarch

• John Dryden: Life of Pericles in English translation
• John Dryden: Life of Nicias in English translation (MIT, August 1997)
• John Dryden: Life of Alcibiades in English translation
• John Dryden: Life of Lysander in English translation

Aristophanes

• The Acharnians in English translation
• The Knights in English translation (MIT)
• Peace in English translation
• Jeffrey Henderson Lysistrata in English translation (Perseus Project)

Cornelius Nepos: Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum gentium (George Mason University)

• Alcibiades
• Lysander
• Thrasybulus

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