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Excerpt from The History of Greece, Vol. 4 of 8 History of Athens from the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War and the establishment of the Supreme Council of thirty, commonly called The Thirty Tyrants, to the restoration of the Democracy by Thrasybulus. Recapitulatory Synopsis of the Peloponnesian War. - Deficiency of the Greeks in political Science. - Condition of Slaves meliorated by the Peloponnesian War. In the long and complicated war, which it has been the business of the preceding chapters to relate, the reader would in vain look for campaigns upon the extensive scale of Hannibal's in Italy, Caesar's in various parts of the ancient world, or many in modern Europe. It was not a war between two great states, but between two confederacies of small states, with intermingled territories. The objects of attack and defence were thus numerous and scattered. The Lacedæmonian confederacy, strong in disciplined numbers, was deficient in pecuniary resources; while the very purpose of Athens, defensive war, restrained her operations to a correspondency with those of her enemies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.