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Definition of Thucydides
1. Noun. Ancient Greek historian remembered for his history of the Peloponnesian War (460-395 BC).
Definition of Thucydides
1. Proper noun. (c. 460 BC – c. 395 BC) A great ancient Greek historian and author of the ''History of the Peloponnesian War'', which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Thucydides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"The speeches considered as the soul of his history. $§ 10, 11. His mode of
expression and the structure of his sentences. § 1. thucydides, an Athenian of ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"As his history was in part prepared by thucydides during the course of the
conflict, it was the work of a scholarly and philosophic war correspondent— an ..."
3. A History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1836)
"thucydides has given a general outline of the occurrences connected with the ...
The outline of thucydides may be safely relied on ; the account of ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"But it is not to thucydides that we owe any knowledge of the particular forms in
... If thucydides bad mentioned Sophocles as a general in the Samian War, ..."
5. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1909)
"thucydides is determining the site of the ancient city by the position of the
... The first category seemed to thucydides either more self-evident or ..."
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