修昔底德

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修昔底德（Θουκυδίδης，前460年至前455年间—约前400年），古希腊历史学家，以《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》傳世，該書记述了公元前5世纪斯巴达和雅典之间的战争。

生平

現代對修昔底德的生平所知不多。最可靠的資料來自他的著作：伯羅奔尼撒戰爭。在書中，他闡述了他的國籍、父親和出生地方。修昔底德在書中告訴我們，他參加了伯羅奔尼撒戰爭的戰鬥，曾經得過黑死病和戰爭失利被流放。 流放時,收集資料記載希臘內戰,<<伯羅奔尼撒戰爭史>>,共八卷,一百多萬字,尚未完成就被暗殺。 。

參考資料和延伸閱讀

主要來源

• Herodotus, Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1920). ISBN 0-674-99133-8 .
• 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). ISBN 0-674-99104-4. .
• Plutarch, Lives, Bernadotte Perrin (translator), Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. (1914). ISBN 0-674-99053-6 .
• Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton (1910). .

其他來源

• Cochrane, Charles Norris, Thucydides and the Science of History, Oxford University Press (1929).
• Connor, W. Robert, Thucydides. Princeton: Princeton University Press (1984). ISBN 0-691-03569-5.
• Dewald, Carolyn. Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006 (hardcover, ISBN 0520241274).
• Forde, Steven, The ambition to rule : Alcibiades and the politics of imperialism in Thucydides. Ithaca : Cornell University Press (1989). ISBN 0-8014-2138-1.
• Hanson, Victor Davis, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. New York: Random House (2005). ISBN 1-4000-6095-8.
• Hornblower, Simon, A Commentary on Thucydides. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon (1991-1996). ISBN 0-19-815099-7 (vol. 1), ISBN 0-19-927625-0 (vol. 2).
• Hornblower, Simon, Thucydides. London: Duckworth (1987). ISBN 0-7156-2156-4.
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• Russett, Bruce. Grasping the Democratic Peace. Princeton University Press. 1993. ISBN 0-691-03346-3. 
• de Sainte Croix, The origins of the Peloponesian War (1972). London: Duckworth. 1972. Pp. xii, 444.
• Strassler, Robert B, ed. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War. New York: Free Press (1996). ISBN 0-684-82815-4.
• Strauss, Leo, The City and Man Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964.