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  • vessels. In the Peloponnesian War (431 – 401 BCE) squadrons of Athenian galleys were described by Thucydides as engaging in coordinated maneuvers which...
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  • 410s BC (redirect from 410s BCE)
    (link) Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vanessa B. Gorman (2001). Miletos, the ornament of Ionia: history of the city to 400 BCE. University...
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  • be confused with the battle that occurred there in 417 BC, recorded by Thucydides shortly afterwards. Pausanias relates: Here are common graves of the Argives...
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    5th century BC (redirect from 400s BCE)
    5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. This century saw the establishment of Pataliputra as a capital of the...
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    14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean. The Ancient Greek historian Thucydides suggested in his 5th century BC History of the Peloponnesian War that...
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    400 BC (redirect from 400 BCE)
    Gautama (also known as Buddha), founder of Buddhism (approximate date) Thucydides, Greek historian (approximate date) (b. c. 460 BC) Dandamaev, Muhammed...
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    inherited from the Xia (c. 2070–1600 BCE), Shang (c. 1600–1046 BCE) and Western Zhou dynasties (c. 1046–771 BCE). Confucianism was suppressed during the...
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    Satrap of Lydia and Ionia. His life is mostly known from the works of Thucydides and Xenophon. According to Ctesias, he was the son of Hidarnes III and...
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  • (/ˈænɪtəs/; Greek: Ἄνυτος, translit. Ánytos; probably before 451 – after 388 BCE), son of Anthemion of the deme Euonymon, was a politician in Classical Athens...
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    Achaemenid rule. Herodotus (Histories) Fragments of Ctesias (Persica) Thucydides (History of the Peloponnesian War) Diodorus Siculus (Bibliotheca historica)...
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    rather than ho diokon ('the one who pursues'). Pericles, according to Thucydides, characterized the Athenians as being very well-informed on politics:...
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    Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 1.103, 2.83, et seq. Diodorus...
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    first known Odrysian king was the expansionist Teres I, who is claimed by Thucydides to have been the first Odrysian king altogether. Writing in the late 5th...
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    pioneer of New Comedy. The historians Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Thucydides, who both lived during the fifth century BC, wrote accounts of events...
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    European, Middle Eastern, Asian, and African peoples were users of slings. Thucydides and others authors talk about its usage by Greeks and Romans, and Strabo...
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    coast, tribute he had a hard time to obtain due to Athenian interference. Thucydides described this situation, faced by both satraps Pharnabazus and Tissaphernes:...
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    OCLC 60370044.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Thucydides 1.103 Stylianou, Historical Commentary on Diodorus, p. 283. Stylianou...
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    Singer 2016, 47–48 Byron 2004, p. 9 Littlejohn, § 1c. Mozi (c. 470-391 B.C.E.) and Mohism Zhang 2023, p. 96 Slote 2005, pp. 936, 938 Sinnott-Armstrong...
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    pluralistic metaphysics and epistemology, traceable to Mahavira (599–527 BCE) Consensus reality Construct (philosophy) Constructivism (international relations)...
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  • Persians were defeated and lost 200 ships according to the account of Thucydides. The next defeat occurred in c. 450 BC, when they lost war in Cyprus (near...
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