Annotations provide context and clarification to this English translation of Thucydides' classic text.

"A newly revised edition of the Richard Crawley translation with maps, annotations, appendices, and encyclopedic index" -- Title page. U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional reading list, 2017. USMC Commandant's Professional Reading List 2021 -- CWO5, COL, GEN. "A newly revised edition of the Richard Crawley translation with maps, annotations, appendices, and encyclopedic index." "A Touchstone book." "A newly revised edition of the Richard Crawley translation with maps, annotations, appendices, and encyclopedic index"--T.p. "This edition uses the translation by Richard Crawley (1840-93) published in 1874"--CIP front matter. Military Reading List: Army 2017. The U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List 2017

Introduction /Victor Davis Hanson -- Book One -- Book Two -- Book Three -- Book Four -- Book Five -- Book Six -- Book Seven -- Book Eight -- Epilogue : theaters of operation in the Peloponnesian War -- Appendices -- The Athenian government in Thucydides / Alan L. Boegehold -- The Athenian empire in Thucydides / Alan L. Boegehold -- Spartan institutions in Thucydides / Paul Cartledge -- The Peloponnesian league in Thucydides / Paul Cartledge -- The Persians in Thucydides / Robert B. Strassler -- Land warfare in Thucydides / Victor Davis Hanson -- Trireme warfare in Thucydides / Nicolle Hirschfeld -- Dialects and ethnic groups in Thucydides / William F. Wyatt -- Religious festivals in Thucydides / Gregory Crane -- Classical Greek currency in Thucydides / Thomas R. Martin -- Calendars and dating systems in Thucydides / Thomas R. Martin.