Thucydides

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thucydides (c. 460 BC c. 395 BC) (Greek , Thoukydíd s) was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" due to his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thucydides (c. 460 BC - c. 395 BC) (Greek T d d , Thoukydídes) was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" due to his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.