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Author(s): Thucydides
Reader(s): Jason, Neville
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0069
Barcode: 9781843795513
Release Date: 08/2012
THUCYDIDES: History of the Peloponnesian War (The) (Abridged)
Tracklist
Disc 1
Thucydides - Author
Jason, Neville (Reader)
|  | 1 | Book 1 – Chapter 1 | 06:02 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | 1.7 For in early times the Hellenes and the barbarians… | 06:00 |
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| | 3 | 1.13 As time went on and Eurystheus did not return, Atreus… | 05:43 |
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| | 4 | 1.18 Even after the Trojan War, Hellas was still engaged… | 05:44 |
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| | 5 | 1.23 Various, too, were the obstacles which the national… | 04:49 |
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| | 6 | 1.29 On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn… | 05:01 |
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| | 7 | Chapter 2: Immediate Causes of the War | 01:58 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 3: Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy… | 04:39 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | 3.7 'We are at last assembled. It has not been easy to assemble…' | 05:11 |
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| | 10 | 3.12 'Such is Athens, your antagonist. And yet, Spartans…' | 05:58 |
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| | 11 | 3.17 'Such, then, was the result of the matter, and it was…' | 04:56 |
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| | 12 | 3.23 'We imagine that our moderation would be best demonstrated…' | 05:53 |
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| | 13 | 3.31 'Confidence might possibly be felt in our superiority in…' | 05:54 |
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| | 14 | 3.38 'In practice we always base our preparations against…' | 05:11 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 15 | Chapter 4: From the end of the Persian to the beginning… | 05:25 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | Chapter 5: Second Congress at Sparta – Preparations for War… | 05:32 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | 5.7 'To apply these rules to ourselves, if we are now kindling…' | 05:40 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | 5.12 'Your position, therefore, from whatever quarter…' | 04:47 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | 5.16 Speech of Pericles to the Athenians on the conduct… | 04:58 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | 5.21 'The great wish of some is to avenge themselves on…' | 04:39 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | 5.26 Dismissing all thought of our land and houses, we must… | 04:15 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | Book 2 – Chapter 6: Beginning of the Peloponnesian War | 05:00 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | 6.6 He accordingly took the precaution of announcing to… | 05:55 |
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| | 9 | 6.11 He, meanwhile, seeing anger and infatuation just now… | 05:37 |
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| | 10 | 6.17 'For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where…' | 05:05 |
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| | 11 | 6.23 'If we turn to our military policy, there also we differ…' | 05:40 |
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| | 12 | 6.28 'Indeed if I have dwelt at some length upon the character…' | 04:19 |
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| | 13 | 6.32 'These take as your model and, judging happiness to be…' | 04:31 |
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| | 14 | Chapter 7: Second Year of the War – The Plague of Athens… | 03:34 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 15 | 7.5 Externally the body was not very hot to the touch… | 03:21 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | 7.9 By far the most terrible feature in the malady was the… | 05:55 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | 7.15 During the whole time that the Peloponnesians were in… | 05:41 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | 7.20 'If you shrink before the exertions which the war makes…' | 05:06 |
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| | 4 | 7.24 'Besides, the hand of heaven must be borne with…' | 03:26 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | 7.27 For as long as he was at the head of the state during the… | 03:51 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | Chapter 8: Third Year of the War – Investment of Plataea… | 00:55 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | Book 3 – Chapter 9: Fourth and Fifth Years of the War | 05:44 |
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| | 8 | 9.8 Speech of the Mytilenean ambassadors requesting help… | 05:56 |
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| | 9 | 9.12 'Such, Spartans and allies, are the grounds and the…' | 05:26 |
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| | 10 | 9.17 If, at the time that this fleet was at sea, Athens had… | 05:46 |
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| | 11 | 9.22 'The most alarming feature in the case is the constant…' | 05:24 |
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| | 12 | 9.27 'Our mistake has been to distinguish the Mytileneans…' | 04:56 |
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| | 13 | 9.33 Speech of Diodotus on Mytilene, in response to Cleon | 05:37 |
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| | 14 | 9.38 'Now of course communities have enacted the penalty of…' | 04:39 |
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| | 15 | 9.43 'Only consider what a blunder you would commit in doing…' | 04:50 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | Chapter 10: Fifth Year of the War – Trial and Execution of… | 04:55 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | 10.4 To your short question, whether we have done… | 05:39 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | 10.9 'To such a depth of misfortune have we fallen that…' | 06:10 |
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| | 4 | 10.15 The speech of the Thebans | 05:06 |
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| | 5 | 10.20 'Meanwhile, after thus plainly showing that it was not…' | 04:55 |
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| | 6 | 10.24 'Such, Spartans, are the facts. We have gone…' | 05:05 |
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| | 7 | Civil war in Corcyra | 05:56 |
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| | 8 | 10.35 Oaths of reconciliation, being only proffered… | 05:54 |
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| | 9 | Chapter 11: Sixth Year of the War – Campaigns… | 00:23 |
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| | 10 | Chapter 12: Seventh Year of the War – Occupation of Pylos… | 05:31 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 11 | 10.52 To apply this to ourselves: if peace was ever desirable. | 03:45 |
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| | 12 | 10.55 Their arrival at once put an end to the armistice at… | 02:56 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 13 | Chapter 13: Seventh and Eighth Years of the War… | 05:14 |
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| | 14 | Chapter 14: Eighth and Ninth Years of the War… | 04:12 |
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| | 15 | 10.64 'Some of you may hang back because they have private…' | 04:51 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | Chapter 15: Tenth Year of the War – Death of Cleon and Brasidas | 04:08 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | 10.71 The Athenians and Spartans and their… | 04:58 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | 10.71 Chapter 16: Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese… | 02:58 |
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| | 4 | 10.74 I lived through the whole of it, being of an age to comprehend… | 03:28 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 17: Sixteenth Year of the War –The Melian Conference… | 05:05 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | 10.84 Athenians. The end of our empire, if end it should… | 05:30 |
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| | 7 | 10.97 Melians. You may be sure that we are as well aware… | 04:31 |
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| | 8 | 10.104 Athenians. Some diversion of the kind you speak… | 06:08 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | Book 6 – Chapter 18: Seventeenth Year of the War… | 05:34 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | 18.5 'Again, some of the most powerful states have never yet…' | 05:02 |
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| | 11 | 18.9 'When I see such persons now sitting here at the side…' | 05:41 |
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| | 12 | 18.14 'What I know is that persons of this kind and all…' | 05:30 |
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| | 13 | 18.19 'Be convinced, then, that we shall augment our power…' | 05:21 |
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| | 14 | 18.24 'I think, therefore, that we ought to take great numbers…' | 04:45 |
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| | 15 | 18.28 Upon hearing this the Athenians at once voted that… | 04:02 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 6
| | 1 | Chapter 19: Seventeenth Year of the War – Parties at Syracuse… | 00:15 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | Chapter 20: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the War… | 00:17 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | Book 7 – Chapter 21: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years… | 00:15 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | Chapter 22: Nineteenth Year of the War – Arrival of Demosthenes | 01:51 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 23: Nineteenth Year of the War – Battles in the Great Harbour… | 05:50 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | 23.7 After this the Syracusans set up a trophy for the sea-fight… | 06:53 |
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| | 7 | 23.11 The engagement of the rest was more of a voluntary nature. | 05:36 |
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| | 8 | 23.15 They thus succeeded in manning about one hundred… | 05:56 |
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| | 9 | 23.20 After this address Nicias at once gave orders to man… | 05:34 |
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| | 10 | 23.24 After the above address to the soldiers on their side… | 05:34 |
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| | 11 | 23.29 Meanwhile the two armies on shore, while victory hung… | 05:43 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 12 | 23.34 Dejection and self-condemnation were also rife among them. | 05:58 |
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| | 13 | 23.41 On that day they advanced about four miles and a half… | 05:36 |
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| | 14 | 23.46 On the other hand, Demosthenes was, generally speaking… | 05:18 |
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| | 15 | 23.51 At last, when many dead now lay piled one upon another… | 05:20 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 16 | Book 8 – Chapter 24: Nineteenth and Twentieth Years… | 02:28 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 17 | Editor's epilogue | 02:51 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 07:18:57