Thucydides tells us Minos was the most ancient man
known to build a navy.
The historian Thucydides, noted for his scientific and rational approach to history,
is also much admired by later humanists.
Thucydides wrote a history of the war between Sparta and Athens in the fifth century B.C.-
a ruthless decades-long struggle for survival.
Between the 8th and 7th centuries BC
the Spartans experienced a period of lawlessness and civil strife, later testified by both Herodotus and Thucydides.
In his historical method, Thucydides emphasized chronology,
a neutral point of view, and that the human world was the result of the actions of human beings.
As early as the fifth century, the Greek philosopher Thucydides contrasted the self-control
and stoicism of Spartans with the more indulgent and free-thinking citizens of Athens.
As early as the fifth century, the Greek historian Thucydides contrasted the self-control
and stoicism of Spartans with the more indulgent and free-thinking citizens of Athens.