Examples of using Thucydides in English and their translations into German
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That just interested Thucydides, human nature.
Great is the might of the sea",said ancient Greek historian Thucydides.
This quote from Thucydides is just as relevant today as it was in the 5th century BC.
The capital upon a hill outside the crater, is still where it was in the days of Thucydides;
According to Thucydides, Skioni was built by the Pelleneans from Peloponnese on their way back from the war of Troy.
He speaks, when moved, in a higher and commanding voice, and Homer and Thucydides resound upon his lips.
According to Thucydides, Erice was founded by some Trojans who took refuge there after their city was destroyed.
We now know that the reference to Minoan sea power(thalassocracy) in Thucydides(1.4; 1.8), Herodotus(3.122) and Diodorus(5.84.1) can claim to be historically justified.
According to Thucydides, they quickly seized the town, which is not fortified and they force people to change sides.
Among the outstanding pieces of the collection there are, among other things,a copy of the"History of the Peloponnesian war" by Thucydides, written in the 10th or 11th century Cod. graec.
As Thucydides put it in his history of the Peloponnesian War,“The strong do as they will and the weak suffer what they must.”.
The warnings of experts, such as former US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, General Martin Dempsey,that the West should not fall into the Thucydides Trap, seem to go unheard.
The tragic story narrated by Thucydides of the destruction of Dorian Melos after its life of 700 years, by the Athenian fleet, offers one fun, what is ustration;
As with the Black Death, the epidemic in Athens was localized geographically, it declined and disappeared as abruptly as it had started,and no known current disease fits its description by the historian Thucydides.
Thucydides does not trust the facts"as sung by the poets, that exaggerated and embellished, or as reports Dictaphones, most requested to delight their listeners than to tell them the truth….
The above are only some of the elements in the narrative of Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, Arrian, Polybius, but also in the writings of Demosthenes and Isocrates, speaking, implicitly or explicitly, the origin of Alexander the Great.
Thucydides the Athenian, wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War and the Athenians, how they fought each other, starting to write soon broke, and he predicted that large dimensions will take more remarkable than all the previous will be.
As an additional protection project was constructed at the level of eythyntirias a wall in the shape of a w, In this great gateway ended the ancient, wooden bridge,reported by Thucydides to the events of the battle Klewnos and Brasidas, the 422 e.
Indeed, according to ancient Greek historian Thucydides,"the peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learnt to cultivate the olive and the vine.
While the modern image of so-called colonization has been marked for a long time by the depiction of the events bylater Greek authors such as Herodotus, Thucydides and Strabon, the results of classical archeology have in recent years cast new light on the events.
Interestingly, Thucydides says that the Macedonians are included and Nations' epanwthen' as Lygkistai[5] and Elimiwtai[6] which are allied and' ypikoa'-ypotaktika- the bottom- of now, as the features, Macedonia.
Written sources===No detailed record of the LelantineWar was produced by a contemporary author(such as Thucydides for the Peloponnesian War), as Greek historiography only developed 200 years later, starting with the works of Herodotus.
Independently of the writings created during the time of antiquity, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek also preserves a large number of medieval and modern-era manuscripts with texts by antique authors, among them widely known names such as Cicero, Livius, Virgil,as well as Demosthenes and Thucydides.
Thucydides testifies that on the peninsula of Athos in the years of, Besides the Greeks colonists from the"Andros and chalcis, was and other towns that were inhabited by a mixed population of bilingual barbarians, that was largely pelasgian and descended from the same Tyrsinoys who inhabited those older and Lemnos and Athens 12.
Some of the greatest names of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato and Socrates,the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Pheidias.
Starting from the beginnings of references to the term' Greeks' hold that Thucydides, of the greatest historical and political philosophers humanity says that before the Trojan war was not the term' Greeks' and that the first time we meet him is in Homer, as a designation of those who battled against Troy, from Fthiotida, under Achilles-' the first Greeks' 1.
Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato and Socrates,the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Phidias.
That the ethnological and linguistic absorption of Pregreeks by the Greeks took much to symplirwthi in all regions of the country,After the time of Herodotus and Thucydides, i. e… as the 5° w. X. century, There were remnants of Pregreeks which had not yet afomoiwthi, even though they had spent fifteen centuries since the time of the first descent of the Greeks.
Thucydides, in recounting the Athenians' discussion of what penalty to impose on the rebellious Mytilenians, noted that“the death penalty has been laid down for many offenses, yet people still take risks when they feel sufficiently confident; it is impossible for human nature, once seriously set upon a certain course, to be prevented from following that course by the force of law or by any other means of intimidation whatsoever.”.
Overview of the numismatic material that looked far from the excavation of the northern wall of fortifications of Amphipolis cannot help in restoring the first phases of the Athenian istorias sovereignty and does not allow even to understand the relationship of fortified Amphipolis tpografiki era Agnonas and Brasidas to the suburb of sources oreven with the 9 the first colony of the streets of Athens which Thucydides puts in place of Amphipolis.