Thucydides

Thucydides (between 460 and 455 BC–circa 400 BC, Greek ??????????, Thoukudídês) was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens. This work is widely regarded a classic, and represents the first work of its kind.

References

• Herodotus, Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1920). ISBN 0674991338 
• Pausanias, Description of Greece, Books I-II, (Loeb Classical Library) translated by W. H. S. Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918). ISBN 0674991044. 
• Plutarch, Lives, Bernadotte Perrin (translator), Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. (1914). ISBN 0674990536 
• Strassler, Robert B, ed. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War. New York: Free Press (1996). ISBN 0684828154
• Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton (1910). 
• Sahlins, Marshall, Apologies to Thucydides: understanding history as culture and vice versa, Univ of Chicago Press, 2005.