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The 40 pages that link to Thucydides, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical methodBroader topic: His work is an early example of systematic inquiry into contemporary events.

• HerodotusCompared with: His stated method contrasts with Herodotus’s broader inquiry into peoples, traditions, and earlier events.

• HistoriographyBroader topic: His emphasis on evidence and political causes shaped later ideals of historical explanation.

• Athenian democracyRelated: His account preserves influential assessments of democracy, leadership, and imperial power in Athens.

• Diodorus SiculusCompared with: Thucydides’s focused, analytical history contrasts with Diodorus’s global chronological scope.

• Peloponnesian WarRelated: His history is the principal contemporary narrative of the conflict.

• Delian LeagueRelated: His history preserves a major analysis of how Athens transformed allied leadership into empire.

• Arms raceRelated: His account is often cited as an early description of fear driving competitive military responses.

• Cassius DioRelated: Dio’s political analysis and speeches draw on a Greek historiographical tradition associated with Thucydides.

• XenophonCompared with: Xenophon continued Thucydides’ history, while differing in style and political emphasis.

• Athenian EmpireRelated: His history preserves a major ancient interpretation of how Athenian power provoked Spartan fear.

• Ancient Greek historiographyBroader topic: His critical treatment of evidence and political causation shaped later Greek historical writing.

• Military historyRelated: His analysis of war and political power became an enduring model of historical inquiry.

• Realism (international relations)Related: His history supplies a classic account of how shifts in power can generate conflict.

• WarRelated: His analysis remains a landmark explanation of conflict between competing political powers.

• Olympic truceRelated: His history records the Spartan attack on Elis and the resulting dispute over the truce.

• Political realismRelated: His account of Athens and Sparta became a touchstone for realist interpretations of conflict.

• Political historyBroader topic: His analysis of war, leadership, and power became an enduring model of political narrative.

• Ionian SeaRelated: His account follows naval conflict and political competition around the Ionian Sea.

• Ancient historiographyBroader topic: He emphasized eyewitness evidence, political causation, and the recurring patterns of human behavior.

• HistoryBroader topic: His analysis of political power and evidence influenced later historical writing.

• Sicilian ExpeditionRelated: His account is the principal detailed narrative of the campaign and its political context.

• AlcibiadesRelated: His history records Alcibiades’ role in the Sicilian expedition and Athenian politics.

• HistoriesCompared with: His stated preference for evidence-based explanation is often contrasted with Herodotus’s wider-ranging narrative.

• ThraciansRelated: His history records Thracian rulers and their military and diplomatic role.

• LeviathanRelated: Hobbes translated Thucydides, whose history sharpened his attention to conflict and political fear.

• Thucydides TrapBroader topic: His explanation of the war supplied the metaphor’s central claim about fear and power.

• Ancient warfareRelated: His history is a major source for the politics and conduct of Greek warfare.

• Artaxerxes IRelated: His account records Persian involvement in Greek affairs during Artaxerxes’ reign.

• First Peloponnesian WarRelated: His history is a key ancient source for the tensions preceding the 431 BCE war.

• History of the Peloponnesian WarBroader topic: His firsthand experience and analytical choices define the work’s narrative and evidence.

• International relations theoryRelated: His account of the conflict remains a touchstone for arguments about power and war.

• Messenian WarsRelated: His brief remarks on Sparta’s earthquake and revolt complicate later chronologies.

• Military scienceRelated: His history supplies enduring analysis of war’s political causes and dynamics.

• A Study of HistoryRelated: Toynbee’s early classical scholarship included work on Greek history and Thucydides.

• Ancient historyRelated: His analysis of evidence and political causes influenced later approaches to historical writing.

• Odrysian kingdomRelated: His history is a major source for the kingdom's early political and military power.

• War studiesRelated: His history is an enduring source for studying power, fear, and conflict.

• Kenneth DoverRelated: Dover edited and interpreted Thucydides, applying rigorous analysis to his Greek prose.

• Lelantine WarRelated: His account mentions an early alliance pattern associated with the war.