• PROEM (I.1-5)
• The CROESUS Logos (6-94)

• The Visit of SOLON THE ATHENIAN (29-33)
• The Persian Campaign of Croesus A: Planning I (46-70)

HISTORY OF ATHENS AND SPARTA (56.2-68)
Origins of Sparta & Athens (56-58)
PEISISTRATOS Logos (59-65)
Spartan Logos (65-68)

• The AITIE ('causes') (73-75.1)

• Croesus' Campaign against PERSIA (75.2-86.1)

Battle & Return to Sardis (76.2-78.3)
Battle of Sardis (79.1-80)
Request for assistance (81-83)
{Spartan War with Argos } (82-83)
Taking of Sardis (84.86.1)

• Croesus on the Pyre (86.9-91.6)

• DELPHI and the Pythia (91)