Sophocles

admirals Alcibiades allies Amphipolis Archidamus Argos army Assembly Athenians Athens attack Attica battle blockade Brasidas carried character citizens Cleon coast command confederate Corcyra Corcyræans Corinth Corinthians countrymen dæmon danger death defend Demosthenes Dorian Eion enemy enemy's envoys escape expedition fact favour fear feeling fleet force friends galleys garrison give Greece Greeks Gylippus harbour Helots honour hope hundred infantry interests invaders Ionian island Lacedæ Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians Lamachus land Melians Mitylenè Mityleneans modern native Naupactus naval neighbours never Nicias once orator party peace Peloponnese Peloponnesians Pericles Persian Phormio Platæans Platea popular position prisoners Pylos quarters reinforcements remarkable revolt sail says the historian says Thucydides seems sent ships Sicily side siege slaves Sparta speaker speech Sphakteria spirit strong struggle suffering Syracusans Syracuse Thebans thought Thrace Thucy Thucydides tion took town troops victory walls