The first of the "scientific" historians, Thucydides makes use of documentary material and relies on eyewitness accounts even where direct documentary evidence is lacking, his keen understanding of human nature helps him to uncover the truth of what actually happened. With the detachment of a clinician and the dramatic skill of a poet, Thucydides recreates the often savage events of the war and brings to life its chief protagonists: Pericles, Nicias, Cleon, Alcibiades, and others.
460-400 B.C.E.) called a "convulsion" affecting all humankind. The bitter rivalry between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, and their respective allies ended with the ruin of Athens' naval hegemony and what the Greek historian Thucydides (ca. The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) was the greatest "disturbance" in Greek history to that time.
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