Contents of the Thirteenth Book of Diodorus
—The campaign of the Athenians against the Syracusans, with great armaments both
land and naval (chaps. 1-3). —The arrival of the Athenians in
Sicily (chap. 4). —The recall of Alcibiades the
general and his flight to
Lacedaemon (chap. 5).
—How the Athenians sailed through into the Great Harbour of the Syracusans and
seized the regions about the Olympieum (chap. 6). —How the Athenians seized Epipolae
and, after victories in battle in both areas, laid siege to
Syracuse (chap. 7). —How, after the Lacedaemonians and Corinthians had
sent them aid, the Syracusans took courage (chap. 8). —The battle between the
Athenians and the Syracusans and the great victory of the Athenians (chap. 9). —The
battle between the same opponents and the victory of the Syracusans (chap. 10). —How
the Syracusans, having gained control of Epipolae, compelled the Athenians to withdraw to the
single camp before the Olympieum (chaps. 8, 11-12). —How the Syracusans prepared a
naval force and decided to offer battle at sea (chap. 13). —How the Athenians, after
the death of their general Lamachus and the recall of Alcibiades, dispatched in their place as
generals Eurymedon and Demosthenes with reinforcements and money (chap. 8). —The
termination of the truce by the Lacedaemonians, and the Peloponnesian War, as it is called,
against the Athenians (chap. 8). —The sea-battle between the Syracusans and the
Athenians and the victory of the Athenians; the capture of the fortresses by the Syracusans
and their victory on land (chap. 9). —The sea-battle of all the ships in the Great
Harbour and the victory of the Syracusans (chaps. 11-17). —The arrival from
Athens of Demosthenes and Eurymedon with a strong
force (chap. 11). —The great battle about Epipolae and the victory of the Syracusans
(chap. 8). —The flight of the Athenians and the capture of the entire host (chaps.
18-19). —How the Syracusans gathered in assembly and considered the question what
disposition should be made of the captives (chap. 19). —The speeches which were
delivered on both sides of the proposal (chaps. 20-32). —The decrees which the
Syracusans passed regarding the captives (chap. 33). —How, after the failure of the
Athenians in
Sicily, many of their allies revolted
(chap. 34). —How the citizen-body of the Athenians, having lost heart, turned their
back upon the democracy and put the government into the hands of four hundred men (chaps. 34,
36). —How the Lacedaemonians defeated the Athenians in sea-battles (chap. 34).
—How the Syracusans honoured with notable gifts the men who had played a brave part
in the war (chap. 34). —How Diocles was chosen law-giver and wrote their laws for
the Syracusans (chaps. 34-35). —How the Syracusans sent a notable force to the aid
of the Lacedaemonians (chap. 34). —How the Athenians overcame the Lacedaemonian
admiral in a sea-fight and captured
Cyzicus
(chaps. 39-40). —How, when the Lacedaemonians dispatched fifty ships from
Euboea to the aid of the defeated, they together with their
crews were all lost in a storm off
Athos (chap. 41).
—The return of Alcibiades and his election as a general (chaps. 41-42).
—The war between the Aegestaeans and the Selinuntians over the land in dispute
(chaps. 43-44). —The sea-battle between the Athenians and Lacedaemonians off Sigeium
and the victory of the Athenians (chaps. 38-40). —How the Lacedaemonians filled up
Euripus with earth and made
Euboea a part of the
mainland (chap. 47). —On the civil discord and massacre in
Corcyra (chap. 48). —How Alcibiades and Theramenes
won most notable victories over the Lacedaemonians on both land and sea (chaps. 49-51).
—How the Carthaginians transported great armaments to
Sicily and took by storm
Selinus
and Himera (chaps. 54-62). —How Alcibiades sailed into the Peiraeus with much booty
and was the object of great acclaim (chaps. 68-69). —How King Agis with a great army
undertook to lay siege to
Athens and was
unsuccessful (chaps. 72-73). —The banishment of Alcibiades and the founding of
Thermae in
Sicily (chaps. 74, 79). —The
sea-battle between the Syracusans and the Carthaginians and the victory of the Syracusans
(chap. 80). —On the felicity of life in
Acragas and the city's buildings (chaps. 81-84). —How the Carthaginians
made war upon
Sicily with three hundred thousand
soldiers and laid siege to
Acragas (chaps. 85-86).
—How the Syracusans gathered their allies and went to the aid of the people of
Acragas with ten thousand soldiers (chap. 86).
—How, when forty thousand Carthaginians opposed them, the Syracusans gained the
victory and slew more than six thousand of them (chap. 87). —How, when the
Carthaginians cut off their supplies, the Acragantini were compelled, because of the lack of
provisions, to leave their native city (chaps. 88-89). —How Dionysius, after he was
elected general, secured the tyranny over the Syracusans (chaps. 92-96). —How the
Athenians, after winning a most famous sea-battle at Arginusae, unjustly condemned their
generals to death (chaps. 97-103). —How the Athenians, after suffering defeat in a
great sea-battle, were forced to conclude peace on the best terms they could secure, and in
this manner the Peloponnesian War came to an end (chaps. 104-107). —How the
Carthaginians were struck by a pestilential disease and were compelled to conclude peace with
Dionysius the tyrant (chap. 114).