![]() ![]() Thucydides may have been related to a Thracian prince whose daughter married the famous Athenian general Miltiades and became the mother of the general and statesman Cimon. The historian's family was wealthy from the possession of gold mines in Scapte Hyle on the Thracian coast opposite Thasos. He is thus to be distinguished from a contemporary of the same name, the son of Melesias, who led the opposition party against Pericles. Thucydides was from the deme of Halimus and was the son of Olorus and Hegesipyle. Little is known about the life of Thucydides Most modern scholars place his birth between 460 and 450 B.C., with a preference for the earlier date. The greatest ancient historian, he is in a real sense the creator of modern historiography. 401 B.C.) wrote on the Peloponnesian War. ![]()
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