Die schriftliche Geschichte Griechenlands
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Greek History Writing
Alcibiades tutored by Socrates by Francois-Andre Vincent, 1776. Public Domain. Alcibiades was an Athenian general that played a destructive role during the Peloponnesian War. Prologue Herodotos (c.490–c.425 BCE) and Thucydides (c.460– c.399 BCE) were great Hellenic / Greek historians. They wrote during the fifth century BCE, about 700 years after Homer. The time of Herodotos and Thucydides was a time of unprecedented intellectual, scientific, and material prosperity and enormous pride that came from the victory of the Greeks over the Persians during the first two decades of the fifth century BCE. The Greeks were free people. They invented democracy, political theory, philosophy, science, and the dramatic theater. They put democracy to practice in the polis, a small-scale state, usually a
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