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c. 460 – c. 400 B.C.
Thucydides
Worth knowing
- An Athenian general who lost a command, was exiled, and spent the rest of the war writing it down.
- The History of the Peloponnesian War is deliberately unromantic: no gods intervene, and he says plainly that he wrote for people who want to understand how such things happen.
- He stops mid-sentence in 411 B.C. The war outlived the book.
The book
Who else was alive
Thucydides against everyone else in the game.