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Thucydides was an ancient Greek historian. Unlike Herodotus, he was the first to use reasoning and logic exclusively, thus making him the first historian in a modern sense.
YMMV. Alternate Aesop Interpretation: Because of Thucydides’ very matter-of-fact descriptions of events, his intended meaning has been interpreted in many different ways by subsequent historiographers.
Thucydides was an ancient Greek historian. Unlike Herodotus, he was the first to use reasoning and logic exclusively, thus making him the first historian in a modern sense.
Thucydides demonstrates that no Athenian statesman after Pericles, the “first man” of Athens and the driving force behind the rebuilding of the Athenian Acropolis, had the ability to lead the ...
- Corinth and Corcyra
- The Surprise of Plataea
- The Plague at Athens
- Investment of Plataea
- Naval Victories of Phormio
- The Revolt of Lesbos
- Escape of Two Hundred Plataeans Fall of Plataea
- Capture of A Hundred and Twenty Spartans at Sphacteria
- Campaigns of Brasidas in Thrace
- The Hollow Peace
I It was in a remote corner of the Greek world that the trouble beganwhich was destined to breed such mischief and havoc for the whole ofGreece. At the beginning of the seventh century before our era theisland of Corcyra had been colonised by the Corinthians. The colonygrew and flourished, and in its turn founded other settlements on theopposite co...
I On the northern slope of Cithaeron, the mountain range which dividesAttica from Boeotia, lies the little town of Plataea. By race and bygeographical position the Plataeans were naturally included in theBoeotian confederacy, under the leadership of Thebes. But nearly acentury before the time of which we are now speaking they had desertedthe Theban...
I At the beginning of the next summer the Peloponnesians again enteredAttica, and resumed their work of devastation, destroying the youngcrops, and wrecking whatever had been spared in the previous year.Before they had been many days in Attica, a new and far more terriblevisitation came upon the Athenians, threatening them with totalextinction as a...
In the third year of the war the usual invasion of Attica was omitted,and the Peloponnesian army under Archidamus marched against Plataea.Having pitched their camp before the walls they prepared to lay wastethe territory; but before the work of havoc began, the Plataeans sentenvoys to remonstrate. "Unrighteous are your deeds," said the spokesmanof ...
I During the last half-century the art of naval warfare had made greatprogress in Greece. The Greek war-galley, or trireme, a vesselpropelled by three banks of oars, had always been furnished with asharp-pointed prow, for the purpose of ramming an opponent's ship; butmany years elapsed before the Greeks attained genuine skill in the useof this form...
I We have already traced the steps by which the various cities composingthe Confederacy of Delos gradually became subjects and tributaries ofAthens. After this great change was effected, the only members of theoriginal league who retained their independence were the wealthy andpowerful communities of Chios and Lesbos. These two islands wereallowed ...
I The siege of Plataea had now lasted for more than a year, and the bravegarrison began to be in sore straits, for their supplies were givingout, and they had no hope of rescue from outside. In this desperatesituation they resolved to make an attempt to break through thebesieging lines, and make their escape to Athens. All were to take partin the a...
I The result of six years of desultory fighting had fully justified theforebodings of Archidamus, and the sanguine anticipations of Pericles.In spite of the terrible ravages of the plague, Athens had easily heldher own against the whole power of the Peloponnesian league. As yet,however, no decisive advantage had been gained on either side. But inth...
I One advantage which accrued to the Athenians from the possession of theSpartan captives was the immunity from invasion. For if the Spartansprepared to make any movement against Attica, they could bring outtheir prisoners, and threaten to put them to death. And in otherdirections the future looked brighter than it had done for many years.They held...
I The negotiations for peace, begun in the previous year; had beeninterrupted by the brilliant successes of Brasidas, and the factiousopposition of Cleon, and after their death the main obstacle to apacific understanding was removed. The high hopes conceived by theAthenians after the capture of the Spartans at Pylos had been damped bytheir disastro...
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Jun 6, 2024 · Thucydides was the greatest of ancient Greek historians and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the struggle between Athens and Sparta in the 5th century bc. His work was the first recorded political and moral analysis of a nation’s war policies.
