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Books by Thucydides

Thucydides was an Athenian general and historian born around 460 BCE. He commanded Athenian forces in Thrace during the Peloponnesian War and was exiled in 424 BCE after failing to prevent the fall of Amphipolis to Sparta. He spent the next twenty years traveling and gathering accounts from participants on both sides. The resulting work, left unfinished at his death around 400 BCE, established the method and ambitions of historical analysis as a discipline. His account of the war remains in continuous use in military academies, political science curricula, and diplomatic training programs.