Thucydides

Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general born around 460 BC. His father was named Olorus, and his family owned gold mines in Thrace, in northern Greece. When war broke out between Athens and Sparta in 431 BC, he began writing its history, believing that it would be the greatest war yet fought. He survived the great plague that struck Athens early in the war and described its symptoms in detail. In 424 BC he was sent as a general to the island of Thasos, but he failed to prevent the Spartan general Brasidas from capturing the important city of Amphipolis. As a result he was exiled from Athens for twenty years, which he said gave him time to study the war from both sides. His History of the Peloponnesian War, which breaks off in 411 BC, tries to explain events through evidence and human motives rather than the will of the gods, and is often seen as one of the first works of scientific history. It contains famous speeches, including the funeral oration of Pericles. Thucydides died around 400 BC.

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