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Thucydides

Thucydides ( ; ; 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 411 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 gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.

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Thucydides was an ancient Athenian historian and general whose *History of the Peloponnesian War* documents the fifth-century BC conflict between Sparta and Athens. He is considered a foundational figure in historical writing because he pioneered an approach emphasizing impartiality, careful evidence-gathering, and logical analysis of causes and effects—methods that earned him recognition as the "father of scientific history."

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Thucydides (/θjuːˈsɪdɨdiːz/; Ancient Greek: Θουκυδίδης, Thoukydídēs; c. 460 – c. 395 BC) was a Greek historian and Athenian general. His History of the Peloponnesian War 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 analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Thucydides">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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“For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.”
“But as the power of Hellas grew, and the acquisition of wealth became more an objective, the revenues of the states increasing, tyrannies were established almost everywhere...”
“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”
“On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.”
“To come to this war: despite the known disposition of the actors in a struggle to overrate its importance, and when it is over to return to their admiration of earlier events, yet an examination of the facts will show that it was much greater than the wars which preceded it.”
“In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.”

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Key facts

Person.name: Thucydides
Person.image: Thucydides pushkin01.jpg
Person.alt: Bust of Thucydides
Person.caption: Plaster cast bust of Thucydides in the Pushkin Museum, created from a Roman copy of an early fourth-century BC Greek original located at Holkham Hall
Person.native_name: Θουκυδίδης
Person.native_name_lang: Greek
Person.birth_place: Halimous, Athens (modern Alimos)
Person.relations: Oloros (father)
Person.notable_works: History of the Peloponnesian War
Person.occupation: Historian, general

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Citizenship: Classical Athens
Image: Thucydides pushkin01.jpg

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Commons category: Thucydides
date of birth: 0460-00-00
date of death: 0395-00-00
name in native language: Θουκυδίδης
Commons Creator page: Thucydides
P8168: Q1075959
significant place: Classical Athens

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36 objects attributed to Thucydides, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

History of Thucydide Athenien, The war which was the Peloponnesiens and Atheniens

Thucydides cum scholiis

De bello Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque

Thukydidēs :Thucydidis De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo Graece Et Latine Ad Editionem Ios. Wasse Et Car. Andr. Dukeri Accurate Expressi Cum Varietate Lectionis Et Annotationibus. 2

Thucydidis de bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo: accedunt scholia Graeca et dukeri wassiique annotationes. 1

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Thoukydides

History of the Peloponnesian War. 7/8

Histoire Grecque de Thucydide :accompagné de la version latine, des variantes des 13 manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale, d'Observations historiques, littéraires et critiques, de specimen de ces manuscrits, de cartes géographiques et d'estampes. 7

Cod. Pal. graec. 252

ThoukydidÄ "s. Thucydides

Thukydidēs :Thucydidis De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo Graece Et Latine Ad Editionem Ios. Wasse Et Car. Andr. Dukeri Accurate Expressi Cum Varietate Lectionis Et Annotationibus. 5

Thukydides' Geschichte des peloponnesischen Krieges :Griechisch und deutsch mit kritischen und erläuternden Anmerkungen. 2. Buch

Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, Parmense, Ms. Parm. 342

Thukydides :für den Schulgebrauch erklärt. 2,1, Buch V & VI

Thucydidis De bello Peloponnesiaco: libri octo. 2.2

Thucydidis De bello Peloponnesiaco :libri octo. 4,2

Thucydidis Historia Laur. Valla interprete

Thucydides

Thucydidis Atheniensis historia

From Bello Pelopounsiaco libri octo... [Printed text]

The history of the Peloponnesian war [Texto impreso] :]a new and literal version, from the text of Arnold, collated with Bekker, Göller, and Poppo

Thoukydides [Printed Text]:] the history of the Peloponnesian war

Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso

Historiae de bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo in Latinam linguam conversi a Vito Winsemio. Nunc denuo ad exemplum ab ipss authore recognitum recusi et editi.

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges. Aus dem Griechischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Friedrich Klein

Thucydides. Translated by Maximilian Jacobi

Thucydide’s history of the Peloponnesian War, on the other hand. by C. N. Osiander... 2nd ed.

Historia. Curavit Ludovicus Dindorfius. (graece)

L'histoire de Thucydide Athenien, De la guerre qui fut entre les Peloponnesiens et Atheniens. Translatee de Grec en Francois par ... Claude de Seyssel ... revue et corrigee (etc.)

Histoire de Thucydide, fils d'Olorus

L'histoire ... De la guerre qui fut Entre les Peloponnesiens et Atheniens, Translatee de Grec en Francois par Claude de Seyssel ... Reveve Et Corrigee Sur L'exemplaire Grec

De Bello Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque Libri Octo Laurentio. Valla interprete: Et nunc a Conrado Heresbachio ad Graecum exemplar diligentissime recogniti

Historia De Thucydides. Que trata de las guerras entre los Peloponeses y Athenienses ... Traduzida De Lengua Griega en Castellana ... por El Secretario Diego Cracian

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13 sections

Contents

Life
Evidence from the classical period
Later sources
The ''History of the Peloponnesian War''
Philosophical outlook and influences
Critical interpretation
Comparison with Herodotus
See also
Notes
References and further reading
Primary sources
Secondary sources
External links

Thucydides has been called the father of the school of political realism, which views the political behaviour of individuals and the subsequent outcomes of relations between states as ultimately mediated by, and constructed upon, fear and self-interest. His text is still studied at universities and military colleges worldwide. The Melian dialogue is regarded as a seminal text of international relations theory, while his version of Pericles's Funeral Oration is widely studied by political theorists, historians, and students of the classics. More generally, Thucydides developed an understanding of human nature to explain behaviour in such crises as plagues, massacres, and wars.