Thucydides

Meaning

Proper Noun

(c. 460 BC – c. 395 BC) A great ancient Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC.

Origin

From Ancient Greek Θουκυδίδης, from θεός + κῦδος.

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