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Thucydides (/ θj uː ˈ s ɪ d ɪ ˌ d iː z / thew-SID-ih-deez; Ancient Greek: Θουκυδίδης, romanized: Thoukudídēs [tʰuːkydǐdɛːs]; c. 460 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general.
As the parts of the ship are replaced, the question remains as to whether the same ship remains throughout. The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.
The earlier, documented by Herodotus and Thucydides in the fifth century BC, records Perdiccas as the first king of Macedonia. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The later tradition first emerged around the beginning of the fourth century BC and claimed that Caranus , rather than Perdiccas, was the founder. [ 14 ]
Link to Greek text of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War at the Perseus Project by book, chapter, and section number. Sections are sometimes called lines. Sections are sometimes called lines.
From the Perseus Project; Diodorus Siculus, Library. From the Perseus Project; Plutarch, Alcibiades. From the Perseus Project; Plutarch, Nicias. From the Perseus Project; Plutarch, Pericles. From the Perseus Project; Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War. From the Perseus Project; Kagan, Donald. The Peloponnesian War (Penguin Books, 2003 ...
In Greek mythology, Perseus (US: / ˈ p ɜː r. s i. ə s /, UK: / ˈ p ɜː. sj uː s /; Greek: Περσεύς, translit. Perseús) is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty.He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. [1]
Several funeral orations from classical Athens are extant, which seem to corroborate Thucydides's assertion that this was a regular feature of Athenian funerary custom in wartime. [a] The Funeral Oration was recorded by Thucydides in book two of his famous History of the Peloponnesian War.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.