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Thucydides
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
For other uses, see Thucydides (disambiguation).
Thucydides (thew-SID-ih-deez; Ancient Greek: Θουκυδίδης, romanized:&#;Thoukudídēs[tʰuːkydǐdɛːs]; c.&#;&#;– c.&#; BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the frakt, as outlined in his introduction to his work.[3][4][5]
Thucydides has been called the father of the school of political realism, which views the political behavior of individuals and the subsequent outcomes of relations between states as ultimately mediated by, and constructed upon, fear and self-interest.[6] • • Little is known about Thucydides’ life apart from the few biographical references in his masterwork. His father’s name was Olorus, and his family was from Thrace in northeastern Greece, where Thucydides owned gold mines that likely financed his historical work. He was born in the Athenian suburb of Halimos and was in Athens during the plague of c B.C., a year after the war began. In , he was given command of a fleet, but was then exiled for failing to reach the city of Amphipolis in time to prevent its capture by the Spartans. He wrote of his exile: “It was…my fate to be an exile from my country for twenty years after my command at Amphipolis; and being present with both parties [Athens and Sparta], and more especially with the Peloponnesians bygd reason of my exile, inom had leisure to observe affairs more closely.” Observe he did. During 20 years of exile, he worked on his history—collecting resultat, writing and revising. Estimates for Thucydides’ date of birth
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Birth of Thucydides c. Plague at Athens, from which Thucydides suffers but recovers Thucydides was an Athenian general in Thrace /3Thucydides exiled from Athens /Death of Thucydides c. On several occasions in the HistoryThucydides refers to himself; these references are the best surviving evidence about his life. Thucydides recalls that at the opening of the war people cited a prophecy which predicted the war would last “thrice nine years” (Thuc. ) and he tells us that he began work on his history at the beginning of the war (Thuc. , Thuc. ); this implies that he was at least a young adult in c. Thucydides informs us that the plague at Athens began at the beginning of summer in (Thuc. and 3). Later on he comments that the plague continued for two years unabated, then let up a bit in the summer of (though never entirely dying out), only to flare up again in the winter of /6 for one more intense period which lasted about one year. Sometime during this peri Thucydides' Life