Thucydides
Thucydides was one of the greatest Greek historians of the ancient Greeks. He did most of his work around 400 B.C. and he was a citizen of Athens. He was most famous for his History of the Peloponnesian War. He fought in the war and became a general. The war lasted for 27 years, from 431 to 401 B.C. In Thucydides opinion he thought that the Greeks fought the hardest they ever had during the war. The Peloponnese was the southern part of Greece controlled by Sparta. During this war Athens, the biggest and greatest city-state of in ancient Greece, was attack by the Spartans and the Persians. Athens was taxing and taking the money of the other city-states of Greece and many city-states were mad so they asked Sparta to help stop Athens. The Persians had tried and failed twice already trying to destroy Athens. The war lasted for 27 years, 431 B.C. to 404 B.C. This is Thucydides' thought of w
Before the Peloponnesian War began, ancient Greece had the greatest military, cultural, and political development. They began to expand their city-state into an empire, which would have power of many other city-states. They had a great empire before it was destroyed by the Sparta and Persia. In 424 B.C. Thucydides was a general and commanded Athenian forces in thrace, where operated mining. He was exiled from the city because he was accused of failing to protect the city of Amphilpolis. Thucydides was banished from Athens. During his exile he worked on his history, and wrote about the Peloponnesian war and had a brilliant account of the war as events unfolded. He returned to Athens in 404 B.C. Most of all of our knowledge of the Peloponnesian war came from the writings of Thucydides. His best-known writing was called the History of the Peloponnesian War, which consists of eight book
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