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"Thucydides" — Morey, 1903

Thucydides

"Thucydides" — Morey, 1903

An eminent historian, born in Athens, Greece, about 471; died about 400 B.C. He was a son of Olorus, and studied oratory under Antiphon and philosophy under Anaxagoras.

Thucydides

An eminent historian, born in Athens, Greece, about 471; died about 400 B.C. He was a son of Olorus,…

"Thucydides, the greatest of the Greek historians, was an Athenian, and was born in the year 471 B.C. His family was connected with that of Miltiades and Cimon. He possessed gold mines in Thrace, and enjoyed great influence in that country." — Smith, 1882

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"Thucydides, the greatest of the Greek historians, was an Athenian, and was born in the year 471 B.C.…

Thucydides was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" due to 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.

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Thucydides was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts…