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when it views his work from the artistic side. Thucydides must always hold his fame by a double right; not only as a thinker who, in an age of transitional scepticism, clearly apprehended the value of disciplined intelligence as a permanent force in practical politics, but also as a writer who knew how to make great events tell their own story greatly; and the dramatic power of the immortal History is heightened by its dramatic reserve.

TABLE OF THE SPEECHES. [Asterisks mark those delivered at Athens before the exile of Thucydides.]
Book.		Date B.C.
I.	32—36	433	Corcyrean		Envoys to the Athenian Ecclesia.*
„	37—43	„	Corinthian
„	68—72	432	Corinthian		Envoys in the first Congress at Sparta.
„	73—78	„	Athenian
„	80—85	„	King Archidamus		to the Spartan Assembly.
„	86	„	The Ephor Sthenelaidas
„	120—24	„	Corinthian Envoys in the second Congress at Sparta.
„	140—44	„	Pericles to the Athenian Ecclesia.*
II.	35—46	431	Funeral Oration of Pericles.*
„	60—64	430	Pericles to the Athenian Ecclesia.*
III.	9—14	428	Mitylenean Envoys to the Peloponnesians at Olympia.
„	37—40	427	Cleon		to the Athenian Ecclesia.*
„	42—48	„	Diodotus
„	53—59	„	Plataeans		to the Spartan Judges.
„	61—67	„	Thebans