History of the Peloponnesian War
Athens · -400
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Thucydides
Thucydides
460 BCE–400 BCE · Athens
Athenian historian of the Peloponnesian War, pioneer of rigorous, evidence-based historical method and political analysis.
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Stop 1 of 1460 BCE–400 BCELived
AthensAttica (Greece)
What they did here
Athenian general and historian of the Peloponnesian War.
About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Aeschylus, Themistocles, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Sophocles, Herodotus