What is Thucydides?
[[File:Thucydides-bust-cutout ROM.jpg|thumb|Bust of Thucydides in the [[Royal Ontario Museum]], [[Toronto]].]] '''Thucydides''' ({{IPAc-en|θj|uː|ˈ|s|ɪ|d|ɪ|d|iː|z}}; {{lang-grc-gre|Θουκυδίδης}}; born around 460 BC, died around 400 BC) was an ancient [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[history|historian]] best remembered for his work on the [[Peloponnesian War]]. He was the son of [[Olorus]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Selections from Greek and Roman historians |last=Robinson Jr. |first=C.A. |date= May 1964 |publisher= Holt, Rinehart and Winston |chapter=Introduction |pages=xiv}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Further reading == * [[Herodotus]], [[Histories (Herodotus)|''Histories'']], [[A. D. Godley]] (translator), Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1920). {{ISBN|0-674-99133-8}} [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Hdt.+toc &nbsp;]. * [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'', Books I-II, ([[Loeb Classical Library]]) translated by W. H. S. Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918). {{ISBN|0-674-99104-4}}.[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+1.1.1 &nbsp;]. * [[Plutarch]], [[Parallel Lives|''Lives'']], Bernadotte Perrin (translator), Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. (1914). {{ISBN|0-674-99053-6}} [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0182;query=toc;layout=;loc=Cim.%201.1 &nbsp;]. * Thucydides, ''The Peloponnesian War''. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton (1910).[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Thuc.+toc &nbsp;]. == Other websites == {{wikiquote-en}} {{Commons category|Thucydides}} * {{gutenberg author| id=Thucydides | name=Thucydides}} * [http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~edmunds/thuc.html Short Bibliography on Thucydides] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061115063738/http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~edmunds/thuc.html |date=2006-11-15 }} Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University * Perseus Project [http://www.per