The sources of History of the Peloponnesian War

1. Homer 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations · 5 passages

   book 1 4 passages anchored here · book 2

   Thucydides names Homer directly and repeatedly as the specific prior authority whose poems he weighs, both relying on and qualifying them, to reconstruct the scale of the Trojan expedition and early Greek naming customs.

   as Homer has also shown, if he is sufficient authority for any one, and also, in [his account of] the transmission of the sceptre, he has mentioned that he

2. History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 1 authority 1 citation

   book 7

   Thucydides explicitly names himself as the author chronicling this war at a formulaic year-marking point in the narrative, an identifiable self-citation of his own written work.

   And so the winter ended, and the eighteenth year of this war, of which Thucydides wrote the history.

3. Hymn to Apollo Homer 1 authority 1 citation · 3 passages

   book 3 3 passages anchored here

   Thucydides explicitly names Homer and the hymn to Apollo and relies on quoted verses as documentary authority for his historical claim about the ancient Delian festival, a rare instance of named literary citation in this analytical hist …

   Homer shows most clearly that such was the case, in the following verses, taken from a hymn to Apollo.

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book 1 1 source

Attic history

book 6 3 sources

Epitaph on the tomb of Archedice at Lampsacus · Verse inscription on the altar of Apollo in the Pythian precinct · epic/traditional poetry on the Cyclopes and Laestrygones

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1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 7 authority · 4 neutral 11 citations · 13 passages

   ch. 9 · ch. 12 · ch. 14 · chapter xx.: on punishments. · ch. 27 · ch. 31 · ch. 33 · ch. 34 2 passages anchored here

   and 3 more chapters

   ch. 41 2 passages anchored here · ch. 45 · ch. 48

   Explicitly named and quoted in paraphrase as historical corroboration.

   ” We find Thucydides of the same opinion, “that anciently lighter punishments were inflicted for the greatest crimes;

2. Orations Dio Chrysostom 2 authority · 1 neutral 3 citations

   oration 11 · oration 53 · oration 88

   Thucydides is named explicitly as the authority for the claim that the Sciritan company never existed.

   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.

3. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 9

   Thucydides is cited to report his term for land left undivided in a distribution.

   Contra autem Thucydides eam terram quae in divisione populo nulli obvenit, αόριστον, hoc est, indefinitam, et limitibus nullis circumscriptam vocat.

4. History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 1 authority 1 citation

   book 7

   Thucydides explicitly names himself as the author chronicling this war at a formulaic year-marking point in the narrative, an identifiable self-citation of his own written work.

   And so the winter ended, and the eighteenth year of this war, of which Thucydides wrote the history.