Thucydides

Thucydides

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Thucydides, Greek Θουκυδίδης, "Thoukudídēs") was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the "History of the Peloponnesian War," which recoun...
Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan

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Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He was...
Nicias

Nicias

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Nicias or Nikias (470-413 BC) was a statesman and a Strategos, in Ancient Athens. Nicias was a member of the Athenian upper class because, from his...

Cleisthenes

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Cleisthenes was a prominent Athenian during the Peloponnesian War (431 BC). The comedeian Aristophanes uses him frequently as the butt of jokes and...
Isocrates

Isocrates

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Isocrates, Greek rhetorician, was one of the ten Attic orators. In his time, he was probably the most influential rhetorician in Greece and made...
Brasidas

Brasidas

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Brasidas was a Spartan officer during the first decade of the Peloponnesian War. He was the son of Tellis and Argileonis, and won his first laurels...

Charmides

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Charmides was an Athenian statesman and one of the Thirty Tyrants who ruled Athens following its defeat in the Peloponnesian War. Uncle of Plato,...
Thrasybulus

Thrasybulus

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Thrasybulus was an Athenian general and democratic leader. In 411 BC, in the wake of an oligarchic coup at Athens, the pro-democracy sailors at...

Eurymedon

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Eurymedon (d. 414 BC), was one of the Athenian generals (Strategos) during the Peloponnesian War. In 428 BC he was sent by the Athenians to...

Peisistratus

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Peisistratus or Peisitratos or Pisistratus (Ancient Greek:) was king of Arcadian Orchomenus in the time of the Peloponnesian War, who became the...