Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Thucydides,_History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War
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gptkbp:author gptkb:Thucydides
gptkbp:dateWritten 5th century BCE
gptkbp:firstPublished circa 400 BCE
gptkbp:focus conflict between Athens and Sparta
gptkbp:genre history
gptkbp:historicalPeriod gptkb:Classical_Greece
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Edward_Gibbon
gptkb:Polybius
history
modern historical writing
gptkbp:influencedBy Herodotus
gptkbp:language gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Alcibiades
gptkb:Cleon
gptkb:Nicias
Pericles
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Melian_Dialogue
gptkb:Funeral_Oration_of_Pericles
speeches
critical historical method
gptkbp:originalTitle gptkb:Ἱστορίαι_(Historíai)
gptkbp:preservedIn manuscripts
gptkbp:setting Ancient Greece
gptkbp:structure 8 books
gptkbp:studiedIn classics
history
political science
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Peloponnesian_War
gptkbp:theme gptkb:politics
gptkb:war
human nature
morality
power
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:French
gptkb:German
English
gptkbp:unfinished yes
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Battle_of_Delium
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6