thucydides in A Sentence

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    Thucydides tells us Minos was the most ancient man known to build a navy.

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    The historian Thucydides, noted for his scientific and rational approach to history, is also much admired by later humanists.

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    Thucydides wrote a history of the war between Sparta and Athens in the fifth century B.C.- a ruthless decades-long struggle for survival.

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    Between the 8th and 7th centuries BC the Spartans experienced a period of lawlessness and civil strife, later testified by both Herodotus and Thucydides.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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