courtesy of Jacob


You're Thucydides! The "historian's
historian," you wrote about The Great War
between Athens and Sparta (the Peloponnesian
War), and you also made fun of Herodotus, your
predecessor. Born in Athens in the mid-Fifth
Century BCE, you served your country during the
war ... but had the ill-luck to be pitted
against the wily Brasidas of Sparta and lost,
and were eventually exiled from Athens ...
which left you rather sore. You strove for
accuracy but loved to invent torturous
speeches, and your history is deceptive.
You're candid, but not impartial. You survived
the infamous Athenian plague during the early
years of the war, but died before you could
complete your history. Many have emulated you,
including Tacitus.


What famous ancient historian are you?
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