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THUCYDIDES
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• THUCYDIDES (noun)
The noun THUCYDIDES has 1 sense:
1. ancient Greek historian remembered for his history of the Peloponnesian War (460-395 BC)
Familiarity information: THUCYDIDES used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ancient Greek historian remembered for his history of the Peloponnesian War (460-395 BC)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
Context examples
The exercise consists of half a chapter of Thucydides.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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