Thucydides (c. 460-455 - c. 399 B.C.), who wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War, came from a wealthy conservative family, was a friend of Pericles of Athens, an opponent of the radical democracy that sent him into exile.
In a speech written for the Athenian leader Pericles, the historian Thucydides has him say that democracy allows men to advance because of merit instead of wealth.
Thucydides is an ancient Greek historian who wrote about the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides was descended from the kings of Thrace. Article discusses his life and the esteem in which Thucydides was held in antiquity. Written in the 17th Century.
Euripides and Thucydides, The Origins of Thucydides' Style, and The Unity of Thucydides' History.
Had Thucydides been born a century later he might have contributed more to Greek mathematics and science than to history. Thucydides provided the basis for the so-called "balance of power" politics.
Richard Hooker's article on Thucydides and the Greek world at the time of the Peloponnesian War.
The war Thucydides describes was contemporary, fought between Greeks, and a dirty war which amounted to a struggle for power. He describes medical symptoms to help future generations recognize the plague that killed Pericles.
Written with the flowery language of 1907, Thucydides Mythistoricus, by Francis M. Cornford, is an online book describing the artistic nature of Thucydides' prose.
Books and articles on Thucydides from Rutgers' Classics Department.
