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thucydides
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What does thucydides mean?
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- A great ancient Greek historian (c. 460 BCE – c. 395 BCE) and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BCE war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BCE.
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The Peloponnesians, Thucydides observes, generally left the field in the summer, and returned home to reap the harvest.
For Machiavelli, exactly as for Thucydides and Polybius, the use of studying history was instruction in the art of politics.
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A saying also of Thucydides, the son of Melesias, stands on record, spoken by him by way of pleasantry upon Pericles's dexterity.
Various indications in ancient times show their frequency, while the famous description of the plague of Athens given by Thucydides, and the discussion of it by Lucretius, exemplify their severity.
Thucydides, it is true, in recording this fact speaks disparagingly of the superstitious bent of the mind of Nicias, but Thucydides also was a man far in advance of his time.