His thoroughness, sharpness, and matter-of-fact analysis have led some people to believe that he, and not fellow historian Herodotus, deserves the title “father of history”. Thucydides would ...

Herodotus and Thucydides, who wrote in Greece about 2,500 years ago, set standards that are still with us today. Thankfully, neither scribe ever served as the president of the American Historical ...

Perhaps because his lecture was on Thucydides, Knox failed to mention Herodotus and Thucydides in the depiction of the brilliance of Athenian culture. 7. F or the nature of the sharp end in Greek ...

then gets down to business with Herodotus (known as “the Father of History” for having written the first work of historical inquiry) and his near contemporary Thucydides. What follows ...

The writing of history is one of the great legacies of the ancient Greeks, and its earliest masters, Herodotus and Thucydides, are as central to the foundations of Western civilization as Homer ...

“The Article with Proper Names in Herodotus and Thucydides” • Matthew Robinson (Oxford) “Programming at the Edge of Poetry: a computerised approach to Latin acrostics” ...