Francis Cornford wrote that the artistic design of this work was like "a set of volcanic islands [heaving] themselves out of 
Francis Cornford wrote that the artistic design of this work was like "a set of volcanic islands [heaving] themselves out of the sea." This work "is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten," according to its translation by the 19th-century Master of Balliol, Benjamin Jowett. Its final sections contain the text of three treaties with Tissaphernes. Early in this work, a group of exiled nobles join the Taulantians, an Illyrian tribe who lived around the colony of Epidamnus. The resulting dispute over Epidamnus between the cities of Corcyra and Corinth was a principle cause of this work's title event. Debate exists over the historicity of this work's speeches, of which the only epideictic example is the funeral oration delivered by Pericles. FTP, name this account of a conflict between Athens and Sparta written by Thucydides.
Francis Cornford wrote that the artistic design of this work was like "a set of volcanic islands [heaving] themselves out of the sea."
{History of the Peloponnesian War}