Thucydides History Of The Peloponnesian War

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Thucydides was an athenian historian and strategos in Athenian War. He was born in Alimos, Greece between the years 460 and 455 B.C. and died between the years 411 and 400 B.C. He has contributed in the strategic interaction of states during his era. He is also known as the father of scientific history and political realism (Kemos, 2005). Thucydides became a general in the Athenian army. He led troops in the Peloponnesian war with Sparta in the late 400s BC, but when he lost a battle the democratic government exiled him for the rest of the war. So, he wrote book about “History of the Peloponnesian War” which analyzes the details on the war between Sparta and Athens and became famously (Whyte, 2015). He observed that the strategic interaction