Thucydides

Thucydides was one of the greatest Greek historians of the ancient Greeks. He did most of his work around 400 B.C. and he was a citizen of Athens. He was most famous for his History of the Peloponnesian War. He fought in the war and became a general. The war lasted for 27 years, from 431 to 401 B.C. In Thucydides opinion he thought that the Greeks fought the hardest they ever had during the war. The …

…known of the accuracy of the information given in the writing of Thucydides, this is because his work is basically the only source of historical information for this period. Before the Peloponnesian War began, ancient Greece had the greatest military, cultural, and political development. They began to expand their city-state into an empire, which would have power of many other city-states. They had a great empire before it was destroyed by the Sparta and Persia.