[...] This work has been programmed to be released in eight volumes, which is the same number as the books of Thucydides' "Histories". The first volume contains a general Introduction, translation, and Commentary of the first book. In this book, the historian briefly presents what preceded the great war, in the so-called "Archaeology", his method, the causes and pretexts of the great war, the events after the Persian wars, which led to the development of the Athenian Alliance into Athenian Hegemony, as well as all the diplomatic activity undertaken to avoid the destructive civil war. [...] (from the book's preface)