Thucydides
Thucydides (/θjuːˈsɪdɪdiːz/; Greek: Θουκυδίδης; born around 460 BC, died around 400 BC) was an ancient Greek historian best remembered for his work on the Peloponnesian War. He was the son of Olorus.[1]
Thucydides Media
The ruins of Amphipolis as envisaged by E. Cousinéry in 1831: the bridge over the Strymon, the city fortifications, and the acropolis
10th-century minuscule manuscript of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War
Pericles's Funeral Oration (Perikles hält die Leichenrede) by Philipp Foltz (1852)
Double herm showing Herodotus and Thucydides. Farnese Collection, Naples
Thomas Hobbes translated Thucydides directly from Greek into English
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References
- ↑ Robinson Jr., C.A. (May 1964). "Introduction". Selections from Greek and Roman historians. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. pp. xiv.
Further reading
- Herodotus, Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1920). ISBN 0-674-99133-8 .
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, Books I-II, (Loeb Classical Library) translated by W. H. S. Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918). ISBN 0-674-99104-4. .
- Plutarch, Lives, Bernadotte Perrin (translator), Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. (1914). ISBN 0-674-99053-6 .
- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton (1910). .
Other websites
- Works by Thucydides at Project Gutenberg
- Short Bibliography on Thucydides Archived 2006-11-15 at the Wayback Machine Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University
- Perseus Project Thucydides, Table of Contents
- Thomas Hobbes' Translation of Thucydides