Thucydides
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Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the f
Plaster cast bust of Thucydides in the Pushkin Museum, created from a Roman copy of an early 4th century BC Greek original located at Holkham Hall
The ruins of Amphipolis as envisaged by E. Cousinéry in 1831: the bridge over the Strymon, the city fortifications, and the acropolis
Thucydides Mosaic from Jerash, Jordan, Roman, 3rd century AD at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin
Bust of Pericles
Herodotus
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Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the
Thucydides
…was 10–12 years old, he and his father were supposed to have gone to the agora of Athens where the young Thucydides heard a lecture by the historian Herodotus. According to some accounts, the young Thucydides wept with joy after hearing the lecture, deciding that writing history would be his life's calling…
A Roman copy (2nd century AD) of a Greek bust of Herodotus from the first half of the 4th century BC
Romanticised statue of Herodotus in his hometown of Halicarnassus, modern Bodrum, Turkey