Thucydides

500 BC–420 BC

athenian statesman, son of Melesias

military personnel · politician · military leader

Born in Alopeke

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• Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC)
• Hippocrates (459 BC–369 BC)
• Euripides (480 BC–406 BC)
• Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)
• Democritus (460 BC–360 BC)

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