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Jul 17, 2024 · Thucydides (born 460 bc or earlier?—died after 404 bc ?) was the greatest of ancient Greek historians and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the struggle between Athens and Sparta in the 5th century bc. His work was the first recorded political and moral analysis of a nation’s war policies.
Jul 22, 2024 · Cicero, the Roman statesman, called Herodotus the "father of history." Plutarch, a Greek philosopher who lived more than a century later than Cicero (first to second century C.E.), had another title for Herodotus: the " father of lies ." (Plutarch was peeved that Herodotus made it clear that Plutarch's own people, the Boeotians, had supported ...
Jul 24, 2024 · In wider legend, Io was beloved by Zeus and became the mother of Epaphus, aka Apis, the legendary Egyptian ruler who founded Memphis . [3] [4] I. 41. Inachus. Argos. legendary. King of Argos and father of Io. In wider legend, he was the first-ever Argive king and a river was named after him.
Jul 22, 2024 · India (Herodotus) The inhabited world according to Herodotus. In ancient Greek geography, the basin of the Indus River (in northwestern Indian subcontinent, present-day Pakistan) was on the extreme eastern fringe of the known world. The Greek geographer Herodotus (5th century BC) describes the land as India, calling it ἡ Ἰνδική ...
Jul 22, 2024 · Sesostris ( Greek: Σέσωστρις) is the name of a legendary king of ancient Egypt who, according to Herodotus, led a military expedition into parts of Europe. Tales of Sesostris are probably based on the life of Senusret I, Senusret III and perhaps other Pharaohs such as Shoshenq I [1] and Ramesses II. [2]
Jul 17, 2024 · For Thucydides kept rigidly to his theme: the history of a war—that is, a story of battles and sieges, of alliances hastily made and soon broken, and, most important, of the behaviour of peoples as the war dragged on and on, of the inevitable “corrosion of the human spirit.”. He vividly narrates exciting episodes and carefully describes ...
Jul 17, 2024 · Arnold Wycombe Gomme. Thucydides - Greek Historian, War Historian, Political Analyst: Besides the political causes of the war, Thucydides was interested in and emphasized the conflict between two types of character: the ever-active, innovating, revolutionary, disturbing Athenians and the slower-moving, more cautious Peloponnesians, especially ...
