Thucydides

(471? 460?- c. 399 B.C.)

Greek historian, son of Olorus, born between 471-460 B.C., said to have been the student of the rhetoricians Antiphon and Gorgias, and the philosopher Anaxagoras. In 421 he headed an Athenian fleet at Thasos. For his delay in helping out the beseiged city of Amphipolis, he was banished for twenty years.Also see:

Greek Historians
Thucydides on the plague
Thucydides: Pericles Funeral Oration
Greek Historians

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