Thucydides
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Thucydides the Athenian · Thucydides the Pharsalian · Thucydides, an Athenian · the Proxenus
spoken of as
1 expressionThucydides the Pharsalian1 mention
History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
while Thucydides the Pharsalian, the Proxenus of the state, was also present, and earnestly opposed the several parties, calling upon them not to destroy their country while the enemy were still waiting to attack them;
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Greek historian cited on the historical evolution from lighter to capital punishments.
” We find Thucydides of the same opinion, “that anciently lighter punishments were inflicted for the greatest crimes;
” In the heroic times most of the kingdoms in Greece were of this description, as we are informed by Thucydides.
The moral power then of governing a state, which is called by Thucydides the civil power, is described as consisting of three parts which form the necessary substance of every state;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian historian and narrator who composed the history of the war between Athens and the Peloponnesians and repeatedly explains his sources and methods.
and factions, generally speaking, arose in the states;
and to this day many parts of Greece live after the old fashion;
Before the Trojan war, Greece appears to have done nothing in common;
Orations
Greek historian.
when they name the Sciritan company of the Lacedaemonians, which never existed, as Thucydides says, and the Athenians honor Harmodius and Aristogeiton most of all, as having freed the city and killed the tyrant.
as did Hecataeus and Herodotus and Thucydides — and he, indeed, not once only at the beginning of the history, but often, declaring solemnly at each winter and summer that "Thucydides composed these things" — but he was so free and magnanimous that he will nowhere be found making mention of his own poetry, but in truth, like the prophets of the gods, uttering his words from somewhere unseen and inaccessible.
But of the foremost, Thucydides seems to me the best, and of the second rank Theopompus.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Greek historian cited on the concept of land left undivided and unbounded.
Contra autem Thucydides eam terram quae in divisione populo nulli obvenit, αόριστον, hoc est, indefinitam, et limitibus nullis circumscriptam vocat.
” On the other hand Thucydides calls the land which in the division falls to no nation, ἀόριστος, that is, undefined, and undetermined by boundaries.
Thucydides I, 139, 2.
Stromata
Athenian historian cited as both borrower from Solon and source for Demosthenes.
Yes, and when Thucydides had said, "to have alone faced the danger at Marathon," Demosthenes said, "By those who faced the danger at Marathon.
" Whence Thucydides too in the Histories says, "Most men are wont, when unlooked-for prosperity comes to them suddenly and at the least cost, to turn to insolence.
Against Theocrines
An Athenian statesman who proposed the decree concerning the Aenians' financial contribution; Theocrines' indictment against his decree is cited as a pretext rather than a genuine legal concern.
Well, he will presently say that the criminal information has been lodged against him for this purpose, that he may not proceed with the indictment which he preferred against Demosthenes or with that against Thucydides;
these provisions regarding those who bring malicious charges shall be in force unless Theocrines, a criminal information having been laid against him, shall see fit to denounce Thucydides or Demosthenes or any other of the men in public life, I should have kept quiet;
For being harassed by the false and malicious charges of this man at the time when some of them were turning to Philip and others to Athens, and learning that the decree which Charinus had previously indicted had again been indicted as illegal,—the decree, that is, which Thucydides proposed and which had to do with their contribution;