Greece: Thucydides (c. 460 BCE - c. 395 BCE), Greek general, historian and writer. Marble portrait head, c. 4th century BCE. Thucydides (Greek Θουκυδίδης, Thoukydídēs) was a Greek historian and author from Alimos. His 'History of the Peloponnesian War' recounts the 5th century BCE war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BCE. Thucydides has been dubbed the 'father of scientific history', because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.

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