Thucydides Point Of View Of The Peloponnesian War

The purpose of this paper is to tell about one of the greatest ancient historians Thucydides, his ideas and to compare his point of view with other great philosophers and writers. Thucydides famous by his work ‘The war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians’. He is the first western historians who strictly chronicled nearly 30 years of war between Athens and Sparta. The Peloponnesian War, one the largest conflicts in the Greek City State era.
When Thucydides wrote about the war between Athens and Sparta he says: “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.” According to Thucydides, the Peloponnesian War of the end of the fifth century BCE arose when Sparta start afraid of the rising power of Athens. Sparta decided to wage a preventive war in order to check Athens’ power. The war lasted twenty-seven years. It was the most terrible period of time.
During exile, he worked hard collecting information, writing and revising. It was one of the most important moments of his life, he began to analyze, understand such concept as politics itself. Thucydides was able to see absolutely clear the tactics from both sides of the conflict. Unlike Herodotus, Thucydides concentrated on contemporary history and presented his account of the events of the war in an annalistic framework, that is, by organizing his history year by year. He included versions of direct speeches like Herodotus and in addition with clearly description of events. Thucydides preferred longer and complex speeches and also he tried to deal with major events and issues of the war in difficult and dramatic language. Often he tries to mention such issues as human nature and behavior because Thucydides saw that the Peloponnesian War is a human conflict in