That Thucydides was clearly moved by the suffering inherent in war and concerned about the excesses to which human nature is prone in such circumstances is evident in his analysis of the atrocities committed during civil conflict on Corcyra, which includes the phrase " War is a violent teacher ".

One of the paramount reasons that contributes to the Peloponnesian War, according to Thucydides, is “ the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta .” President Hu clearly learned from the Peloponnesian War and tried to reduce the deadly psychological feeling in the nature of humans as well as nations.

Thucydides ' account clearly details the complete disappearance of social morals during the time of the plague.

Galen states that the skin rash was close to the one Thucydides described.

One, as early as Thucydides, reported in Plutarch, the Suda and John Tzetzes, states that the Delphic oracle warned Hesiod that he would die in Nemea, and so he fled to Locris, where he was killed at the local temple to Nemean Zeus, and buried there.

A noteworthy difference between Thucydides ' method of writing history and that of modern historians is Thucydides ' inclusion of lengthy formal speeches that, as he himself states, were literary reconstructions rather than actual quotations of what was said — or, perhaps, what he believed ought to have been said.

Thucydides states:

Bosworth states that " Arrian has in mind Thucydides ' famous strictures of histories of the pentekontaetia, on which the passage is patently modelled ".

The Battle of Sybota took place in 433 BC between Corcyra ( modern Corfu ) and Corinth, and was, according to Thucydides, the largest naval battle between Greek city states until that time.

* Stasis ( political history ), as defined by Thucydides as a set of symptoms indicating an internal disturbance in both individuals and states

Thucydides states that Eurymachus was " a man of great influence at Thebes ," and that the Platean, Naucleides, arranged with him to bring in " a little over 300 " Theban troops in the middle of the night, for a sneak attack.

In addition, as the disease is most commonly transmitted through poor hygiene habits and public sanitation conditions, it is an unlikely cause of a widespread plague, emerging in Africa and moving into the Greek city states, as reported by Thucydides.

Thucydides noted that people who had recovered from a previous bout of the disease could nurse the sick without contracting the illness a second time.

Thucydides noted that people who had recovered from a previous bout of the disease could nurse the sick without contracting the illness a second time.

According to Thucydides, although the Spartans took no action at this time, they " secretly felt aggrieved ".

It was blamed on Thucydides, although he claimed that it was not his fault and that he had simply been unable to reach it in time.

Thucydides then remarks that should another Dorian War come, this time attended with a great dearth, the rhyme will be remembered as " dearth ," and any mention of " death " forgotten.

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.

And after time of Herodotus, Thucydides, in my opinion, easily vanquished all in the artfulness of his style: he so concentrates his copious material that he almost matches the number of his words with the number of his thoughts.

Indeed, neorealists often argue that the ordering principle of the international system has not fundamentally changed from the time of Thucydides to the advent of nuclear warfare.

Aspects of international relations have been studied for thousands of years, since the time of Thucydides, but IR became a separate and definable discipline in the early 20th century.

Sparta took the island from Argos early in the sixth century, and ruled it under a kytherodíkes ( kυθηροδίκης, " judge on Cythera "), in Thucydides ' time ; Athens occupied it three times when at war with Sparta ( in 456 during her first war with Sparta and the Peloponnesians ; from 426 to 410, through most of the great Peloponnesian War ; and from 393 to 387 / 386, during the Corinthian War against Spartan dominance ) and used it both to support her trade and to raid Laconia.

Thucydides fell out of favour with the Athenians, and was exiled in 424 BC, which allowed him plenty of time to write about the ongoing Peloponnesian War.

The former outlook views Thucydides as pathbreaking, modern, and philosophical, ahead of his time ; the latter views the historian as closely connected with his historical and cultural context.

A brief glance at Homer's poems, the works of the tragedians, and Herodotus's Histories shows that many of the most influential literary forms in Thucydides ' time included substantial first-person speeches.

In fact, Thucydides claims that Troy could have been conquered in half the time had the Greek leaders allocated resources properly and not sent a large portion of the army on raids for supplies.

Thucydides correlates, in his description of the 426 BC Malian Gulf tsunami, for the first time in the history of natural science, quakes and waves in terms of cause and effect.

After the conclusion of the alliance between the Argives, Achaeans, Eleans and Athens, the humiliation of the Spartans in the 420 Olympic Games and the invasion of Epidaurus by the allies, the Spartans were compelled to move against them, fearing an alliance with Corinth and having amassed an army that was, according to Thucydides, ' the best army ever assembled in Greece to that time.

Thucydides stated that one of the three original tribes of Sicily, the Sicani, were of Iberian origin, though " Iberian " at the time could have included what we think of as Gaul.

The time period that Thucydides was most likely referencing was the time between 3000 BC and 2000 BC when viticulture emerged in force in the areas of Asia Minor, Crete, Greece and the Cyclades of the Aegean Sea.

The foundation of Himera is placed subsequent to that of Mylae ( as, from their relative positions, might naturally have been expected ) both by Strabo and Scymnus Chius: its date is not mentioned by Thucydides, but Diodorus tells us that it had existed 240 years at the time of its destruction by the Carthaginians, which would fix its first settlement in 648 BCE.

Thucydides distinctly alludes to it as not existing in his time as a city, but repeatedly mentions the locality, on the sea-coast, which was at that time occupied by the Syracusans, but which the Athenian general Lamachus, during the expedition against Syracuse ( 415 – 413 BC ), proposed to make the head-quarters of their fleet ; but his advice was not taken, and in the next spring the Syracusans fortified it.

A stronger reason Webster gives for this dating is that he believes that the structure of Woman of Trachis is similar to that of Sophocles ' lost play Tereus, which Webster dates to this time period based largely on circumstantial evidence from Thucydides.

Thucydides ' history of the Peloponesian War and Herodotus ' history of the Persian War ( both written in the 5th century BC ) survives in about eight early copies, the oldest ones dating from the 10th century AD.

All three chroniclers agree that Themistocles's next move was to contact the Persian king ; in Thucydides, this is by letter, while Plutarch and Diodorus have a face-to-face meeting with the king.

Thucydides and Plutarch say that Themistocles asked for a year's grace to learn the Persian language and customs, after which he would serve the king, and Artaxerxes granted this.

Three great historians were Herodotus, regarded as the father of history, known for The Persian Wars ; Thucydides, who generally avoided myth and legend and applied greater standards of historical accuracy in his History of the Peloponnesian War ; and Xenophon, best known for his account of the Greek retreat from Persia, the Anabasis.

Through his arrogance and arbitrary actions ( Thucydides says " violence "), Pausanias managed to alienate many of the Allied contingents, particularly those that had just been freed from Persian overlordship.

The historian Thucydides describes the Lelantine War as exceptional, the only war in Greece between the mythical Trojan War and the Persian Wars of the early fifth century BC in which allied cities rather than single ones were involved.

In the introduction of his work on the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides ( 460 BC to early 4th century ) gives a short summary of earlier Greek history, stating that there were no major collective military actions by Greeks between the Trojan War and the Persian Wars.

In the second year of the Peloponnesian War ( 430 BC ), Thucydides described an epidemic disease which was said to have begun in Ethiopia, passed through Egypt and Libya, then come to the Greek world.

Moreover, Thucydides developed a historical topic more in keeping with the Greek lifestyle-the polis or city-state-whereas the interplay of civilizations was more relevant to Asiatic Greeks ( such as Herodotus himself ), for whom life under foreign rule was a recent memory.

Thucydides, a Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, writes that the Spartan king Pleistoanax lived on Mt.

Some scholars note the similarity between Machiavellian and the Greek historian Thucydides, since both emphasized power politics.

In Western society, the use of oral material goes back to the early Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides, both of whom made extensive use of oral reports from witnesses.

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides.

Thucydides mentions the Acarnanians and Livy refers to the inhabitants of three Greek cities on the northern coast of the Peloponnesus as expert slingers.

Thucydides (; Greek: Θουκυδίδης, Thoukydídēs ; c. 460 – c. 395 BC ) was a Greek historian and author from Alimos.

After World War II, Classical scholar Jacqueline de Romilly pointed out that the problem of Athenian imperialism was one of Thucydides ' central preoccupations and situated his history in the context of Greek thinking about international politics.

Subsequent Greek historians — such as Ctesias, Diodorus, Strabo, Polybius and Plutarch — held up Thucydides ' writings as a model of truthful history.

Lucian refers to Thucydides as having given Greek historians their law, requiring them to say what had been done ().

Due to the loss of the ability to read Greek, Thucydides and Herodotus were largely forgotten during the Middle Ages in Western Europe, although their influence continued in the Byzantine world.

The first European translation of Thucydides ( into Latin ) was made by the humanist Lorenzo Valla between 1448 and 1452, and the first Greek edition was published by Aldo Manunzio in 1502.

But it was part of the method of both alike to eliminate conventional sentiment and morality. In the seventeenth century, the English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes, whose Leviathan advocated absolute monarchy, admired Thucydides and in 1628 was the first to translate his writings into English directly from Greek.

The Greek historian Thucydides suggested in 426 BC that tsunamis were related to submarine earthquakes, but the understanding of a tsunami's nature remained slim until the 20th century and much remains unknown.

As early as 426 BC the Greek historian Thucydides inquired in his book History of the Peloponnesian War about the causes of tsunami, and was the first to argue that ocean earthquakes must be the cause.

* Thucydides, Greek historian, ( 460 BC – 395 BC )

This site is described by the Greek historian Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War.

** Thucydides, Greek historian ( d. 395 BC )

* 401 Thucydides, Greek historian, leaves account of Golden Age of Pericles and Peloponnesian War at his death ( History of the Peloponnesian War )

* Thucydides, Greek historian ( approximate date ) ( b. c. 460 BC )

* Thucydides, Greek historian ( alleged date, however, 460 BC is more probable ) ( d. c. 395 BC )

* Thucydides, Greek historian ( d. 395 BC )