Thucydides facts for kids

Bust of Thucydides in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Thucydides (born around 460 B.C.E. – died around 400 B.C.E. ) (Greek Θουκυδίδης, Thoukudídēs) was an ancient Greek historian best remembered for his work on the Peloponnesian War. He was the son of Olorus.

• Herodotus, Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1920).  .
• Pausanias, Description of Greece, Books I-II, (Loeb Classical Library) translated by W. H. S. Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918). . .
• Plutarch, Lives, Bernadotte Perrin (translator), Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. (1914).  .
• Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton (1910). .

• Perseus Project Thucydides, Table of Contents

Images for kids

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  The ruins of Amphipolis as envisaged by E. Cousinéry in 1831: the bridge over the Strymon, the city fortifications, and the acropolis

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  Thucydides Mosaic from Jerash, Jordan, Roman, 3rd century CE at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin

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  Bust of Pericles

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  The Acropolis in Athens

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  Herodotus and Thucydides

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  Thomas Hobbes translated Thucydides directly from Greek into English