He compares this to the work of the historian Thucydides, who found it difficult recording speeches verbatim but instead had the speakers say what he felt was appropriate for them to say on the occasion while adhering as much as possible to the general sense.

In his work, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote about a single long conflict that lasted 27 years between Athens and Sparta with its origins and results.

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.

At the same time, Thucydides ' influence was increasingly important in the area of international relations during the Cold War, through the work of Hans Morgenthau, Leo Strauss and Edward Carr.

A third historian, Xenophon, began his " Hellenica " where Thucydides ended his work about 411 BC and carried his history to 362 BC.

p. 455 ) that he was an Athenian writer, intermediate in date between Thucydides and Xenophon, and that his work continued the narrative of Thucydides, from the point at which the latter historian stopped ( 410 BC ) down to the Battle of Cnidus.

Cicero who had a high opinion of his work, calls him the miniature Thucydides ( pusillus Thucydides ).

* Claudius Didymus, a Greek grammarian, who wrote about the mistakes of Thucydides relating to analogy, a separate work about analogy among the Romans, and an epitome of the works of Heracleon.

Thucydides ' high social status and family wealth granted him the leisure needed to work on writing the History of the Peloponnesian War.

Another distinctive feature of the work is Thucydides ' inclusion of dozens of speeches assigned to the principal figures engaged in the war.

The gods play no active role in Thucydides ' work.

Despite the absence of the gods from Thucydides ' work, he still draws heavily from the Greek mythos, especially from Homer, whose works are prominent in Greek mythology.

In his emphasis on sea power, Thucydides resembles the modern naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan, whose influential work The Influence of Sea Power upon History helped set in motion the naval arms race prior to World War I.

For example, Xenophon wrote his Hellenica as a continuation of Thucydides ' work, beginning at the exact moment that Thucydides ' History leaves off.

His work, however, is generally considered inferior in style and accuracy compared with Thucydides '.

Like Herodotus and Thucydides, he probably autographed his work for the benefit of later writers.

His selections have given rise to some accusations of partisan selectivity and of deviations from a delivered speech, the work still holds up remarkably well as an important piece of scholarship, and Rosenman will long be remembered as the Thucydides of the Roosevelt era, according to Hand ( 1968 ).

He appears to have used Thucydides as a model to some extent, both for style and for the general composition of his work, often introducing speeches wholly or in part imaginary.

A third historian of ancient Greece, Xenophon, began his Hellenica where Thucydides ended his work about 411 BC and carried his history to 362 BC.

The war was documented by Thucydides, an Athenian general, in his work The History of The Peloponnesian War.

Beginning in June 1907, Peter Behrens ' pioneering industrial design work for the German electrical company AEG successfully integrated art and mass production on a large scale.

church father Isho ' dad of Merv ( probably based on the work of Theodore of Mopsuestia ), which J. R. Harris translated back into Gr. in Exp Expositor " 7 ( 1907 ), p 336.

About 1907, he traveled to Paris, where he found work in the office of Auguste Perret, the French pioneer of reinforced concrete.

Construction work on the Gaillard Cut, in 1907 photograph.

Finally, to end the impasse, Shackleton agreed, in a letter to Scott dated 17 May 1907, to work to the east of the 170 ° W meridian and therefore to avoid all the familiar Discovery ground.

Pablo Picasso's 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon has often been considered a proto-Cubist work.

They became friendly rivals and competed with each other throughout their careers, perhaps leading to Picasso entering a new period in his work by 1907, marked by the influence of Greek, Iberian and African art.

Here, he briefly studied under the philosopher Jean Hyppolite ( 1907 – 1968 ), an existentialist and expert on the work of 19th century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ).

Whilst attending a congress of neurologists in Amsterdam in 1907, Jones met Carl Jung from whom he received a first-hand account of the work of Freud and his circle in Vienna.

A major early work on this group is F. DuCane Godman's Monograph of the Petrels, five fascicles, 1907 — 1910., with portraits of figures by John Gerrard Keulemans.

The test is named after Charles Mantoux, a French physician who built on the work of Koch and Clemens von Pirquet to create his test in 1907.

Lars Valerian Ahlfors ( 18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996 ) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis.

He was first influenced by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, but around 1907 he became fascinated with the work of Paul Cézanne.

The power evoked by Gauguin's work led directly to Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon in 1907.

For reasons of expediency, however, he was initially drawn into cooperating with the early Nazi regime in the hope that Hitler — an ardent Wagnerian and music lover who had admired Strauss's work since viewing Salome in 1907 — would promote German art and culture.

In 1907 he began work with Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester and in 1909, along with Ernest Marsden, conducted the famous Geiger-Marsden experiment called the " gold foil experiment ".

From 1907 to 1970, work was under the direction of the École française d ' Extrême-Orient, which cleared away the forest, repaired foundations, and installed drains to protect the buildings from water damage.

His mystical work The Hill of Dreams ( 1907 ; though written ten years earlier ) has scenes set in Notting Hill ; it is here that the protagonist Lucian Taylor encounters the beautiful bronze-haired prostitute who will later connive at his death.

Of this work only a few fragments were known up till 1907.

After arrival in Europe in 1907, Rivera initially went to study with Eduardo Chicharro in Madrid, Spain, and from there went to Paris, France, to live and work with the great gathering of artists in Montparnasse, especially at La Ruche, where his friend Amedeo Modigliani painted his portrait in 1914.

* Images première série ( 1904 – 1905 ) and Images deuxième série ( 1907 ), two other sets of work for solo piano by Claude Debussy

From 1907 to 1912, the work was published as The Americana.

In 1906 and 1907 a large new building was erected, chiefly devoted to cabinet work.

In 1907 when there were only half a dozen good galleries in Paris, he made contracts with artists to buy all of their work ( freeing them from the worry and restraint about cost of living and creating work ).