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Thucydides (c. 470–396 BCE)
Thucydides was an Athenian historian who lived in the second half of the fifth century BCE. He wrote only one work: a narrative history of the Peloponnesian War (432–404 BCE), fought between competing Greek city-states. He tells us that he started his history at the outbreak of the war, foreseeing its significance. He includes an account of the end of the war, though the narrative itself breaks off abruptly in the twenty-first year (411 BCE). Biographers in antiquity speculate that he died a sudden and violent death and that this accounts for the unfinished style of his work. Thucydides made a significant contribution to political theory in his formulation of the principle of political realism in international relations.
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