Thucydides

1 9.9

An ancient Greek historian who gives a detailed account of the war between Athens and Sparta

proper noun
/θjuːˈsɪdɪˌdiːz/

: Tucídides

Thucydides captured this by juxtaposing two speeches by the Athenian statesman Pericles.
Thucydides the historian
Thucydides' History
Thucydides' Peloponnesian War

And I remember at one point near the end, they gave us a passage of Thucydides.

Autoplay Next

Examples

One of the greatest historians of all time, Thucydides, for example, never loses sight of suffering in The Peloponnesian War.

Academic text (1993)
By emphasizing the shifting distribution of power in the Greek system of city-states, Thucydides identified the source of change.

Academic text (1994)
And I became a incredible fan of Thucydides, and obviously I read it later on in English, the whole book.

Robert Greene
In the end, however, even Thucydides apparently had little doubt that war was inevitable.

Academic text (1994)
According to Thucydides, he also established the first thalassocracy, or maritime empire.

Academic text (2010)
And then we have Thucydides, who writes about the Peloponnesian Wars after he's sidelined as a general.

Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy
In the early political ideas of Pericles and Thucydides, Athenian democracy was ranked higher than Sparta's oligarchy, and certainly above tyranny.

Academic text (2017)
In his History, Thucydides tells the tragic story of how Greek turned against Greek.
One of the greatest historians of all time, Thucydides, never loses sight of suffering in The Peloponnesian War.
An account of the epic clash, the Peloponnesian War (431 B.C.-404 B.C.), was written by Thucydides, a Greek historian.

Surface Forms

Thucydides main

Etymology

The word Thucydides is an ancient Greek name, and the ending -ides means 'son of'. So the name originally meant 'son of Thucydes', which helps you remember he was a Greek man from long ago and explains why this name belongs to the famous Greek historian.