Thucydides
c. 471-401 B.C.
Greek historian known for his eyewitness account of the plague that struck Athens in 429 B.C. at the outset of the Peloponnesian War
(431-404 B.C.) "The bodies of dyi...
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Thucydides(460–399 Bce)
Thucydides wrote a history of the epic struggle between Athens and Sparta. His work has proved to be—as he hoped—a "possession for all time,"...
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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...
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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 an...
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Thucydides, a "historian," and Sophocles, a playwright, were two men that shared the Greek notion of tragedy in their works. Thucydides' idea of history can be compared to this notion epitomized in S...
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Thucydides, the Athenian, was the first historian in ancient times to have recorded the facts of an event as history, his history being on the Peloponnesian war. History before Thucydides was written...
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Thucydides indicates that people are indiscriminate about the stories or accounts they are told. They do not put them to the test. This is the case even with accounts that deal with their own countr...
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Thucydides (460-399 Bce)
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