Thucydides at His Best

It will be understood by comparing the pellicle funeral speech with the pestilence of Tusydide, the history of the Peloponnesus war. Throughout his text, Thucydides explained justice, power, and various aspects of mankind. Depending on the order, style, language choice he wrote, and the relationship that seems to happen in practice, the reader can make different inferences about the information he is trying to convey. The juxtaposition of the two stories represents many different features for investigation and analysis.

Document 1. Tucydides worked best when depicting the eventual collapse of Athens' efforts in Sicily. The Athenians proceeded towards the River of the Acinarus and were destroyed by spears, arrows, stones, and even cavalry groups and other units from various places. They believe that things will be easier for them if they can cross the river. They desperately stop pain and drink water. As they reached the river, they broke the rank and met it, and everyone was trying to make the enemy's shipwreck increasingly brutal. They were driven together, they collided with each other and stepped on each other. Some people are killed by their spears, others are intertwined with equipment and sunk each other. He asked Gylippus and Spartans to do what they wanted but to stop killing his men. . .

In his masterpiece, except for some biographies, little is known about the life of Thucydides. His father's name is Olorus, his family is from Thrace in northeastern Greece, and Thucydides has a gold mine to fund his historic work. He was born in the outskirts of Harimos in Athens and was in Athens during the plague 430 BC one year after the beginning of the war. In 424, he got orders from the fleet, but was expelled because he did not arrive in Amphipolis in time to prevent being occupied by the Spartans. During his 20 year exile, he studied his history, gathered information, wrote it, and corrected it. Estimation of the birth date of Thucydides (c.460) depends on the age at which he may have served military service. As his history did not mention the events since 411, the monaster probably died before the last surrender of Athens.