Thucydides
Proper noun
Meaning
Thucydides
(c. 460 BCE – c. 395 BCE) A great ancient Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BCE war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BCE.
Examples
If Thucydides were plopped down in the Middle East or East Asia, he would probably recognize ... the situation quite quickly.
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc.... doesnt anyone check these?
I would willingly give Thucydides for some authentic memoirs by Aspasia or by a slave of Pericles.
The world at the beginning of the twenty-first century is a strange cocktail of continuity and change. Some aspects of international politics have not changed since Thucydides.
According to Thucydides, Pericles may have declared in a funeral oration: We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.