21. Thucydides - Wikipedia thucydides. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Who was thucydides.His character was said to be dry, humourless and pessimistic. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help Thucydides From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thucydides (c. 460 BC 395 BC ) was the famous Greek author of The Peloponnesian War . He was born somewhere between 460 and 455 BC. Thucydides was a wealthy Athenian noble and the son of Olorus the King of Thrace . His wealth came from his family's goldmines at Scapte Hyle on the Tracian coast. Thucydides was connected through family to Miltiades and Cimon . Thucydides lived between his two homes, one in Athens and one in Thrace. His family connections brought him in to contact with the very men who were shaping the history his wrote about. Timeline of his life Before 431 he took no prominent part in Athenian politics. He was in his twenties when the

22. Thucydides, C.460-c.400 B.C. Living in the Athens of Pericles, thucydides regarded the motives of statesmanand the actions of government as the essence of history. http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/Thucydides.html

Thucydides, c.460-c.400 B.C. The Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides was the son of Olorus, an aristocrat, and was born near Athens around 460 B.C. He suffered in the plague that devastated Athens in 430, but managed to recover and command an Athenian squadron of seven ships at Thasos (424). Failing to relieve Amphipolis, he was condemned to death. He took refuge in exile and retired to his Thracian estates. Thucydides lived in exile for the next twenty years and probably did not return to Athens until 404. Living in the Athens of Pericles, Thucydides regarded the motives of statesman and the actions of government as the essence of history. He did not simply categorize facts. Instead, Thucydides sought out those general principles that those facts illustrated. He searched for the truth underlying historical events and learned that the motives of men follow certain patterns. Therefore, the proper analysis of the Peloponnesian War would reveal those general principles that also govern human behavior. In The Peloponnesian War , Thucydides writes: Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak from any chance information, nor according to any notion of my own; I have described nothing but what I either saw myself, or learned from others of whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry. The task was a laborious one, because eyewitnesses of the same occurrences gave different accounts of them, as they remembered or were [partial to] one side or the other. And very likely the strictly historical character of my narrative may be disappointing to the ear. But if he who desires to have before his eyes a true picture of the events which have happened, and of the like events which may be expected to happen hereafter in the order of human things shall pronounce what I have written to be useful, then I shall be satisfied. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten.

23. Thucydides In The Modern World The Influence of thucydides in the Modern World. Thus, on one hand, thucydideswas the first to describe international relations as anarchic and immoral. http://www.hri.org/por/thucydides.html

The Influence of Thucydides in the Modern World The Father of Political Realism Plays a Key Role in Current Balance of Power Theories By Alexander Kemos Thucydides' realism has had a timeless impact on the way contemporary analysts perceive international relations. Adding to the works of Gilpin and Waltz, Leo Strauss of the University of Chicago viewed The Peloponnesian War as containing propositions that could be brought into a coherent framework and identified as "Thucydides' political philosophy" or serve even as the basis for a series of laws about the science of modern politics. In fact, political scientists have treated the work of Thucydides as a coherent attempt to communicate silent universals that have served as the basis for American foreign policy and security doctrine in the post World War II era. Thus, on one hand, Thucydides was the first to describe international relations as anarchic and immoral. The "Melian dialogue" best exemplifies Thucydides' view that interstate politics lack regulation and justice. In the "Melian dialogue," he wrote that, in interstate relations, "the strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept." For him, international relations allow the mighty do as they please and forfce the weak to suffer as they must. On the other hand, Thucydides illustrated the Cold War phenomenon of "polarization" among states, resulting from their strategic interaction.

24. Thucydides And His Predecessors thucydides and his Predecessors. Tim Rood (The Queen's College, Oxford). 4'And this Hellenic event . . .' thucydides 7. 87. 56. http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/rood.html

Thucydides and his Predecessors Tim Rood (The Queen's College, Oxford) Thucydides' response to his literary predecessors has been explored with some frequency in recent years. Several articles have appeared even since Simon Hornblower recently wrote that 'two areas needing more work are Thucydides' detailed intertextual relation to Homer and to Herodotus'. In these discussions, Thucydides tends to be seen as inheriting a wide range of specific narrative techniques from Homer, and as alluding to particular passages in epic through the use of epic terms and through the broader structuring of his story. It has also been stressed that Thucydides' relationship with Homer should be studied in the light of the pervasive Homeric charge found in the work of Herodotus, the greatest historian before Thucydides. Nor is Thucydides' debt to Herodotus merely a matter of his taking over Herodotus' Homeric features: it is seen, for instance, in his modelling of his Sicilian narrative after Herodotus' account of the Persian Wars, and in his assuming knowledge of events described by Herodotus.

25. Thucydides On Logographoi: A Modern Parallel? thucydides on logographoi a modern parallel? TP Wiseman (Universityof Exeter). Thuc. 1.21.1 as the prose writers have put together http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1997/wiseman.html

Thucydides on logographoi: a modern parallel? T.P. Wiseman (University of Exeter) Thuc. 1.21.1: as the prose writers have put together for the purpose of enticement to the audience rather than the truth, things that cannot be checked and the majority of them having won over owing to time untrustworthily into the mythical. How exactly did the logographers' material 'win over into the mythical'? Tacitus seems to be referring to a similar phenomenon at Annals 3.19.2 on the avenging of Germanicus: adeo maxima quaeque ambigua sunt, dum alii quoquo modo audita pro compertis habent, alii uera in contrarium uertunt, et gliscit utrumque posteritate. The opposite of uerum is fabula , as is clear from 4.11.2-3 and 11.27, where Tacitus warns his readers against irresponsible versions created for the sake of sensation and eagerly accepted. But who did it, and how? What was the machinery for the creation of instant myth? A somewhat similar complaint emerges from the Journals of the novelist Anthony Powell, who as one of the few surviving witnesses is much in demand as a first-hand authority on the literary history of the nineteen-twenties and thirties. In 1983 he was being interviewed about George Orwell: 'not easy to describe to someone of a

26. Thucydides, Greece, Ancient History thucydides (c.460400 BC). thucydides is considered one of the greatesthistorians of the ancient world together with Herodotus. http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/history/ancient/thucydides.htm

Thucydides (c.460-400 BC) Thucydides is considered one of the greatest historians of the ancient world together with Herodotus. He tried to be as neutral as he possible could and he stated that what he wrote was something that belonged to the future. Some people like to call him a journalist, which perhaps is not too far from the truth, since he based his texts on witness reports and interviews. He was born near Athens, the son of an aristocrat, and when he was old enough he joined the army. He became commander of the Athenian fleet, but failed at Amphipolis against the Spartan army and its general Brasidas, and was exiled from Athens for 20 years. This is what made him sit down and start writing about his time. Webmistress V.E.K. Sandels Home Who is Who in ... -Antigonos Gonatas -Antigonos Monophtalmos -Antipater -Antisthenes -Anyte -Apelles ... -Zeuxis

27. Thucydides thucydides. (about 460 404 BC). As long as the subject of historyis studied, the fame of the Athenian thucydides will be secure. http://www.crystalinks.com/thucydides.html

THUCYDIDES (about 460 -404 BC) As long as the subject of history is studied, the fame of the Athenian Thucydides will be secure. His stature as an historian has never been surpassed and rarely equaled. In his History of the Peloponnesian War , he accomplished what few others have: He wrote an eyewitness account of the events of the war as they unfolded. Thucydides was born no later than 460 BC. The Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta lasted from 431 to 404. Of his life very little is known except what he tells in the book itself. He was in Athens during a serious outbreak of plague in 430 and 429. In 424 he was elected a military magistrate and was given command of a fleet.

28. Thucydides, Book 1 thucydides. HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. translated by RichardCrawley. Introductory Note. thucydides, as he himself tells us, was http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/thucydi1.html

THUCYDIDES HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR translated by Richard Crawley Introductory Note Thucydides, as he himself tells us, was an Athenian and lived during the period of the Peloponnesian War, though, from the unfinished state of his work, he probably died before it came to an end. Believing in the early stages of the war that it would be one of the most important wars in Greek history, he collected his materials and began the early drafts of his history soon after the war began. The first book is his study of events leading to the war and represents the earliest surviving account of the building of the Athenian empire. The subsequent books narrate the course of the war itself. The electronic text version of this translation comes from the Eris Project at Virginia Tech, which has made it available for public use. The hypertext version presented here has been designed for students of Ancient History at the University of Calgary. I have added the section numbers (to facilitate specific citation or to find a specific passage from a citation; these are displayed in red , if your browser is capable of understanding later versions of HTML) and the internal links (to allow navigation); editions of the Greek texts have further subdivisions, but these have not been added at this point. The division into chapters and the descriptions of their contents is the work of Crawley; I have adopted these as the divisions for the internal links, since the number of sections is rather large. To compensate, I have listed the sections included in each chapter alongside the links to the chapters; this should eliminate the need for excessive scrolling of text to find specific sections. Crawley's paragraphs have been adopted here, with very little modification. Another HTML version, with no numeration, but with each chapter as an individual document if you prefer this, is available at the

29. The Revolution At Corcyra The Revolution at Corcyra. thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War.by Ben Zarit Written 4/11/95. thucydides on other revolutions during the war. http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~bzarit/thucydides.html

The Revolution at Corcyra Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War by Ben Zarit Written 4/11/95 Table of Contents Maps of Greece and Corcyra Island Overview of the Revolution Thucydides on other revolutions during the war Inductive vs. Deductive Reasoning ... Comments on this paper Map of Greece Map created by Neel Smith, courtesy of Perseus Project 2.0, Yale 1995 Map of Corcyra Island Map created by Neel Smith, courtesy of Perseus Project 2.0, Yale 1995 Overview of the Revolution In the fifth year of the Peloponnesian war (427 BCE), Athens' ally Corcyra fell victim to internal strife, a vicious struggle between the commons, allies of Athens, and the oligarchs, who were eager to enlist the support of the Spartans. The revolution began when Corinth, an ally of Sparta, released Corcyraean prisoners with the promise that the former prisoners would work to convince Corcyra to abandon its ally Athens and join the Peloponnesian side. These men brought Peithias, a pro-Athenian civic leader, to trial on charges of "enslaving Corcyra to Athens" ( Thucydides, 3.71.1

30. Thucydides From such a basis, thucydides, born in 460 BCE, rejected the supernatural andcomposed a history that reveals underlying social pressures and political http://www.humanistictexts.org/thucydides.htm

Click Home For Topic Search, Up For Period Summary Contents Introduction The Early History of Greece Agamemnon The Funeral Oration of Pericles ... Source Introduction The Peloponnesian War started when the Spartans and their allies invaded Attica in the spring of 431 BCE. The Athenians held a funeral at the public charge for those who fell in the first year of the war. In the funeral oration that Thucydides attributes to Pericles, he portrays the Athenian democracy at its zenith, praising the interest of Athenians in public affairs and their respect for authority and for the laws, with special regard for those protecting the injured. This last is important, because Pericles also praised the Athenian s' practice of sending untrained troops into war. Eventually, they learned the truth of the observation by Confucius that to send untrained troops into war was to throw them away and resorted to use of a professional army to prevent further reduction of their population. The Early History of Greece Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war in which the Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another. He began to write when they first took up arms, believing that it would be great and memorable above any previous war. For he argued that both states were then at the full height of their military power, and he saw the rest of the Hellenes either siding or intending to side with one or other of them. No movement ever stirred Hellas more deeply than this; it was shared by many of the Barbarians, and might be said even to affect the world at large. The character of the events which preceded, whether immediately or in more remote antiquity, owing to the lapse of time cannot be made out with certainty. But, judging from the evidence which I am able to trust after most careful enquiry, I should imagine that former ages were not great either in their wars or in anything else.

31. Arts - Literature: Thucydides thucydides (circa 450400 BC). BIOGRAPHY thucydides was an Athenianwho lived during the mid-to-late-fifth century BC. As a historian http://www.ancientgr.com/archaeonia/arts/literature/thucydides.htm

THUCYDIDES (circa 450-400 B.C.) Biography Contribution to Historiography BIOGRAPHY: Thucydides was an Athenian who lived during the mid-to-late-fifth century BC. As a historian, Thucydides is famous for writing about the history of the Peloponnesian War , which took place during his lifetime. Our knowledge about the life of Thucydides is incomplete and controversial . The general belief is that he was born around 450 B.C. and died at the end of the fifth century (around 400 B.C.). Thucydides' father was named Oloros , a name which indicates that Thucydides' relatives were royal Thracians . There is also evidence of a Thracian connection in Book 4, chapter 105 of Thucydides' History , which mentions he had mining concessions in Thrace . The name Thucydides itself was not Thracian, and he was a citizen of Athens . This all suggests that Thucydides was an Athenian aristocrat (part of the upper class). In 431 B.C., when the Peloponnesian War began, Thucydides began to write. Thucydides was not only a spectator and observer of the war, he also

32. - Great Books - thucydides (c. 460 BC400 BC), Brief Biography thucydides was the famous Greek authorof The Peloponnesian War. He was born somewhere between 460 and 455 BC. http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_1126.asp

Thucydides (c. 460 BC-400 BC) Brief Biography Thucydides was the famous Greek author of The Peloponnesian War . He was born somewhere between 460 and 455 BC. Thucydides was a wealthy Athenian noble and the son of Olorus the King of Thrace. His wealth came from his family's goldmines at Scapte Hyle on the Tracian coast. Thucydides was connected through family to Miltiades and Cimon. Thucydides lived between his two homes, one in Athens and one in Thrace. His family connections brought him in to contact with the very men who were shaping the history his wrote about. Timeline of his life Who was Thucydides His Character was said to be dry, humourless and pessimistic. Thucydides admired Pericles and approved of his power over the people, despite his usual disgust for demagogues. Thucydides was not completely in favour of democracy, but thought that it was ok when in the hands of a good leader. Thucydides would have been schooled by Sophists They were the teachers in Athens but today would be considered more like Philosophers and Astronomers Thucydides would have been taught by them not to accept things at face value, to question things. They would have taught Thucydides the mechanics of his writing, and they endowed him with his skills to assess the truth. Unfortunately, Thucydides is completely unaware of the workings of Economics he was not taught them, and did not understand them so they are omitted from his work. The Peloponnesian War Thucydides does not take the time to discuss the arts, literature or society in which the book is set and in which Thucydides himself grew up. Thucydides was writing about a event and not a period and as such took to lengths to discuss anything which he considered unrealated. Thucydides goes to great pains to make each event as graphic as the one which preceeded it.

33. Thucydides. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. thucydides. thucydides’ account of the plague, through which he lived, displayshis clinical and descriptive attitude and is a standard of its type. http://www.bartleby.com/65/th/Thucydid.html

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34. Thucydides (Historian) thucydides may have come back to Athens after the end of the Peloponnesian war in404, as he was still alive by then (as allusions to events of that time in http://plato-dialogues.org/tools/char/thucydid.htm

Bernard SUZANNE Last updated December 5, 1998 Plato and his dialogues : Home Biography Works History of interpretation ... New hypotheses - Map of dialogues : table version or non tabular version . Tools : Index of persons and locations Detailed and synoptic chronologies - Maps of Ancient Greek World . Site information : About the author This page is part of the "tools" section of a site, Plato and his dialogues , dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato's dialogues. The "tools" section provides historical and geographical context (chronology, maps, entries on characters and locations) for Socrates, Plato and their time. For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations Thucydides may have come back to Athens after the end of the Peloponnesian war in , as he was still alive by then (as allusions to events of that time in his work show), and must have died a few years later, leaving his history of the Peloponnesian war unfinished. . . . . WORK IN PROGRESS - PLEASE BE PATIENT . . . To Perseus general lookup encyclopedia mentions in ancient authors The Histories of Thucydides are available at Perseus.

35. Eserver.org/history/peloponesian-war.txt 431 BC HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR by thucydides translated byRichard Crawley The First Book. CHAPTER I. The State of Greece http://eserver.org/history/peloponesian-war.txt

36. Modern History Sourcebook: Thucydides: Inventing Speeches Modern History Sourcebook thucydides On Inventing Speeches. thucydides Historyof the Peloponnesian War was a major innovation in the recounting of the past. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/thucydid.html

Back to Modern History Sourcebook Modern History Sourcebook: Thucydides: On Inventing Speeches Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War was a major innovation in the recounting of the past. Rather than telling stories for entertainment or mythological reasons, Thucydides tried to analyse the past and form a coherent narrative. To do this required coming to grips with less than perfect source material. Thucydides discusses his solution. This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook . The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history. (c)Paul Halsall, April 1998 halsall@murray.fordham.edu

37. Ancient History Sourcebook: Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE): Pericles' Funeral Ancient History Sourcebook thucydides (c.460/455c.399 BCE) Pericles'Funeral Oration from the Peloponnesian War (Book 2.34-46). http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE): Pericles' Funeral Oration from the Peloponnesian War (Book 2.34-46) This famous speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war. Funerals after such battles were public rituals and Pericles used the occasion to make a classic statement of the value of democracy. "Further, we provide plenty of means for the mind to refresh itself from business. We celebrate games and sacrifices all the year round, and the elegance of our private establishments forms a daily source of pleasure and helps to banish the spleen; while the magnitude of our city draws the produce of the world into our harbour, so that to the Athenian the fruits of other countries are as familiar a luxury as those of his own. "Turning to the sons or brothers of the dead, I see an arduous struggle before you. When a man is gone, all are wont to praise him, and should your merit be ever so transcendent, you will still find it difficult not merely to overtake, but even to approach their renown. The living have envy to contend with, while those who are no longer in our path are honoured with a goodwill into which rivalry does not enter. On the other hand, if I must say anything on the subject of female excellence to those of you who will now be in widowhood, it will be all comprised in this brief exhortation. Great will be your glory in not falling short of your natural character; and greatest will be hers who is least talked of among the men, whether for good or for bad.

38. Thucydides; A Short Biography thucydides The Author of The Peloponessian War thucydides the sonof Olorus was born probably about 460 BC and died about the http://www.ourcivilisation.com/decline/thcydds.htm

Note from A Study Of Our Decline Biographies Home Thucydides The Author of " The Peloponessian War Thucydides the son of Olorus was born probably about 460 BC and died about the year 400 BC When the Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 B.C Thucydides probably took part in some of its early actions. Some time between 430 and 427 he fell ill in the plague, but recovered. In 424 he was appointed general, but his small squadron of ships arrived too late to save the important Athenian colony of Amphipolis from the Spartan commander Brasidas, though he successfully held the nearby port of Eion against Brasidas's attacks. In consequence he was exiled, not returning until twenty years had passed, only to die a few years later. For much of the period he describes The Peloponnesian War is the only source that survives. The verity of his reports and the justice of his perceptions have been the cause of controversy amongst scholars for centuries. But it is certain that he used his historical imagination to reconstruct only as a last resort. When the various parts of the history were composed, which of these he revised, and whether their chronological inconsistencies are due to later editing - these questions are still unsolved. Home Contents Biographies

39. Thucydides - Quotes And Quotations Author thucydides, Men naturally despise those - The bravest are surelythose - The secret of happiness is - We have done nothing http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/a132611.html

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40. Thucydides thucydides, 1. antik yunan'da bir tarihçi. ayni zamanda kendisine antik yunandabir tarihçinin adini nick olarak seçen yeni sözlük kullanicimiz. http://sozluk.sourtimes.org/show.asp?t=thucydides

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