A few questions on a sentence from Thucydides (Peloponnesian War 6.68)

1. What did Thucydides say about the Peloponnesian War?
2. What is a sentence for Peloponnesian War?
3. What is the main idea of Thucydides?
4. Did Thucydides support the Peloponnesian War?

What did Thucydides say about the Peloponnesian War?

In his opening lines, Thucydides says he wrote about the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, “beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it.” At the time, Athens was a great sea power with a democratic political ...

What is a sentence for Peloponnesian War?

1) In his History of the Peloponnesian War, to be sure, he refrains from offering a picture of the best regime. 2) Now at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War Socrates was just under 40 years of age. 3) In the Peloponnesian War broke out in 5 th B.C.

What is the main idea of Thucydides?

Thucydides was especially interested in the relationship between human intelligence and judgment, Fortune and Necessity, and the idea that history is too irrational and incalculable to predict.

Did Thucydides support the Peloponnesian War?

Neutrality. Despite being an Athenian and a participant in the conflict, Thucydides is often regarded as having written a generally unbiased account of the conflict with respect to the sides involved in it.