Thucydides

Thucydides, son of Melesias in Wikipedia

Thucydides (Greek: Θουκυδίδης) was a prominent politician of ancient Athens and the leader for a number of years of the powerful conservative faction. While it is likely he is related to the later historian (and general) Thucydides son of Olorus, the details are uncertain; maternal grandfather and grandson fits the available evidence. Thucydides, ...

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Thucydides in Wikipedida

Thucydides (c. 460 BC – c. 395 BC) (Greek Θουκυδίδης, Thoukydídēs) was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analy...

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