Thucydides
noun
c460–c400 b.c., Greek historian.
Thucydidean
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a word derived from
Thucydides.
Example Sentences
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If you find yourself in Thucydidean exile, start with the “Landmark.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Our breath is theirs — from “the high Aeschylean sheen” of “The Lord of the Rings” to George R. R. Martin’s “tart Thucydidean appreciation for the way in which political corruption can breed narrative corruption.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
He is Thucydidean in viewing decisions about war and politics, politics and war as the crux of the matter.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2018
There is another distinguished artist in words—again rather more Thucydidean than Thucydides—, who gives, according to his own idea, the clearest, most convincing descriptions of every town, mountain, plain, or river.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
To avoid dryness and prolixity he condensed quotations, and occasionally employed the Thucydidean method of abridgment or representation in place of fact catalogues.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
