Part 1. lecture 1. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War --
lecture 2. Greek way of war --
lecture 3. Sparta, perceptions and prejudices --
lecture 4. Sparta and her allies --
lecture 5. Athenian democracy --
lecture 6. Athens and the navy --
lecture 7. Victory over Persia, 490-479 B.C. --
lecture 8. Athens or Sparta, a question of leadership --
lecture 9. Cimonian imperialism --
lecture 10. Sparta after the Persian Wars --
lecture 11. First Peloponnesian War --
lecture 12. Thirty years' peace.
Part 2. lecture 13. Triumph of the radical democracy --
lecture 14. From Delian League to Athenian Empire --
lecture 15. Economy and society of imperial Athens --
lecture 16. Athens, school of Greece --
lecture 17. Crisis in Corcyra, 435-432 B.C. --
lecture 18. Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War --
lecture 19. Strategies and stalemate, 431-429 B.C. --
lecture 20. Athenian victory in northwest Greece --
lecture 21. Imperial crisis, the Chalcidice and Mytilene --
lecture 22. Plague, fiscal crisis and war --
lecture 23. Demagogues and stasis --
lecture 24. Pylos, 425 B.C., a test of leadership.
Part 3. lecture 25. New leaders and new strategies --
lecture 26. Peace of Nicias --
lecture 27. Collapse of the Peace of Nicias --
lecture 28. From Mantinea to Sicily, 418-415 B.C. --
lecture 29. Sparta, Athens and the western Greeks --
lecture 30. Athenian expedition to Sicily --
lecture 31. Alcibiades and Sparta, 414-412 B.C. --
lecture 32. Conspiracy and revolution, 411 B.C. --
lecture 33. Alcibiades and Athens, 411-406 B.C. --
lecture 34. Defeat of Athens, 406-404 B.C. --
lecture 35. Sparta's bitter victory --
lecture 36. Lesons of the Peloponnesian War.