Thucydides Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing… — Thucydides
• The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to… — Barry S. Strauss
• The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New… — Horace Walpole
• I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. — Richard Cobden
• I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay… — Pierre Trudeau
• But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and… — Carl Sagan
• Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these? — Niccolo Machiavelli
• In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present. — Simon Schama

Who Wrote These Thucydides Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Thucydides Quotes as follows:

• 1 Thucydides Quote by Thucydides
• 1 Thucydides Quote by Barry S. Strauss
• 1 Thucydides Quote by Horace Walpole
• 1 Thucydides Quote by Richard Cobden
• 1 Thucydides Quote by Pierre Trudeau
• 1 Thucydides Quote by Carl Sagan
• 1 Thucydides Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
• 1 Thucydides Quote by Simon Schama