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Classical-era Greek historians
- HerodotusHerodotus was born around 485 BC in the Greek city of Halicarnassus, now known as Bodrum, Turkey. At that time, this port city lay under Persian control…
- XenophonXenophon of Athens was born in the deme of Erchia during the Peloponnesian War. His father Gryllus belonged to an Athenian aristocratic family that valued…
- ThucydidesThucydides, an Athenian historian and general, wrote about the Peloponnesian War that began in 431 BC. He fought in the war and contracted the plague that…