Thucydides

How To Use Thucydides In A Sentence

• It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors, above all Thucydides.
• Thucydides suggests, in addition, the existence of a diplomatic component.
• Thasos, and hearing that Thucydides had the right of working gold mines in the neighbouring district of Thrace, and was consequently one of the leading men of the country, did his utmost to get possession of the city before his arrival. The History of the Peloponnesian War
• According to Thucydides, he also established the first thalassocracy, or maritime empire. First Minoan Shipwreck
• Indeed, The Peloponnesian War may well be the seminal work on international relations, even as Thucydides is venerated in the West as the founder of enlightened pragmatism in political discourse. A Historian For Our Time
• Thucydides suggests, in addition, the existence of a diplomatic component.
• I say only that, relative to the standards of its time, there is a structured self-editing mechanism at work in Thucydides — yet another reason why he is especially pleasing to modern academic sensibilities, and why he has become the favored Greek among today’s policy elites. A Historian For Our Time
• The striking parallel with Thucydides is in the decline in public debate in Athens and its ever more crazed imperial adventures, wiping out peoples (its murder of the men at Melos and enslavement of the women and children) and war against a large democracy - Syracuse - of which it was ignorant. Balkinization
• Of course, Mr. Kagan relies heavily on Thucydides, as any historian of the Peloponnesian War must, but he doesn't hesitate to take issue with his judgments.
• Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm. The Spartacus War