CIVILIZATION
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It describes the Acropolis’s role in the war as providing a place of defense and shelter.
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This work records the war between Greece and Persia in an attempt to explain the conflict.
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Thucydides recorded both the Greek and Spartan sides of the war to ensure that the history was correct.
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It was the first time that the Greeks had recorded a history of a war, even though other groups had recorded history.
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Detailed explanation-1: -With his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides chronicled what was perhaps the most momentous event of the ancient Greek world. He explored the major personalities on each side of the conflict and examined the political origins of the clash between Sparta and an ascendant Athens.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thucydides (/(j)uːˈsɪdɪˌdiːz/; Ancient Greek: , romanized: Thoukudídēs; c. 460 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the first sentence of his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that he began writing about the war because he believed “it would be a great war, and more worthy of relation than any other that had preceded it.” He went on to identify what he believed to be the “real cause” of the war.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Peloponnesian War was a war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta-the two most powerful city-states in ancient Greece at the time (431 to 405 B.C.E.). This war shifted power from Athens to Sparta, making Sparta the most powerful city-state in the region.
Detailed explanation-5: -Thucydides, the ancient Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, has long been considered the father of both scientific history and political realism.