Thucydides: The Father of History

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This in-depth paper explores the life of Greek historian Thucydides, the inventor of both the year by year narrative and the legal and medical metaphors. Thucydides was and still is considered the greatest historian of antiquity who wrote a critically acclaimed history of the Peloponnesian War. This paper also discusses Thucydides inventing the first historical archeology of a culture in his pursuit of learning how men learn of the past.
Topics covered in this report include:
The Biography of Thucydides
Conclusion
Footnotes
References

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"Thucydides' work was enlivened by the well-crafted speeches he put into the mouths of participants in the events he chronicled. This was a common technique in his day. The greatest speech in his history was Pericles' funeral oration. Besides being an accurate historian, Thucydides' account of the plague, through which he lived, displays his clinical and descriptive attitude and is considered a standard of its type. He is generally acclaimed as the creator of scholarly history as we know it today."

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