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| Name: |
Thucydides | | Birth Date: |
c. 460 B.C. | | Death Date: |
c. 401 B.C. | | Nationality: |
Greek | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
historian, author |
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 Biography of Thucydides
1163 words, approx. 3.9 pages
 The Greek historian Thucydides (ca. 460-ca. 401 BC) wrote on the Peloponnesian War. The greatest ancient historian, he is in a real sense the creator of modern historiography. Little is known about the life of Thucydides. Most modern scholars place his b... summary from source:
 Biography of Thucydides
5334 words, approx. 17.8 pages
 The historian Thucydides was a citizen of Athens and lived during the most fertile period of Greek culture. His only preserved writing is his history of the Peloponnesian War, fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies (431-404 B.C.). T...
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 History of the Peloponnesian War Information
3,324 words, approx. 11 pages
The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Athenian league (led by Athens). It was fought over 20 years. It was written by Thucydides, an...
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 The Historian The Peloponnesian War.(Book Review)
01/01/2004: 521 words, approx. 2 pages The Peloponnesian War. By Donald Kagan. (New York: Viking, 2003. Pp. xxx, 511. $29.95.) Donald Kagan, author of a well-respected scholarly history of the Peloponnesian War in four volumes, has now written a highly readable one-volume account of the war for a... summary from source:
The New American Lessons of the Peloponnesian War: although the current "war on terror" and the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece are separated by over 2,400 years, their similarities are striking, instructive, and cautionary.(HISTORY--STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM)
01/09/2006: 2,675 words, approx. 9 pages Delay not, fellow-allies, but convinced of the necessity of the crisis, and the wisdom of this counsel, vote for the war, undeterred by its immediate terrors, but looking beyond to the lasting peace by which it will be succeeded. Out of war peace...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Frank Byron Jevons
9,152 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following excerpt from his monograph written in 1886, Jevons maintains that Thucydides sought "to give a strict and faithful account of the facts" of the Peloponnesian War and demonstrates the importance of the War to Western history.
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 Essay Grade: 96%Is Thucydides a Realist
3,387 words, approx. 11 pages
Provides a 'realist' interpretation of Thucyidides History of the Peloponnesian War. Explores the political and philosophical importance of the work. Considers the influence individual motivations have on political events and decisions . summary from source:
Essay Grade: 98%The Rise of the Sophist Movement
2,602 words, approx. 9 pages
Details the rise of the sophist movement, using "The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives", by Plutarch; "History of the Peloponnesian War", by Thucydides; and "The Last Days of Socrates", by Plato. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 97%The Mytilene Debate and Athenian Debate
2,242 words, approx. 8 pages
This is a comparison essay on the Mytilenian Debate vs. the Ahenian debate that took place in Athens in the 400 B.C. These are discussed in the "History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides.
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