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Bust of Thucydides, cast in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow (photograph by shakko, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Bust of Thucydides, cast in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow (photograph by shakko, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Wikimedia Commons

Auteur

Thucydide

c. 460–400 BC · Historian and general

An Athenian general exiled after he failed to save Amphipolis, he watched the war from both sides and wrote its history as a possession for all time: the funeral oration, the plague, Melos, Sicily.

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Lire Thucydide.

1 œuvre

The History of the Peloponnesian War, in Greek beside Richard Crawley’s English.

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