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

This dramatic form has, however, defeated its own objects sometimes, for all the Thucydidean fishes talk like Thucydidean whales.

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.

Just think of the dignity of history, and the Thucydidean style—the Attic embroidered with these Latin words, like a toga relieved and picked out with the purple stripe—so harmonious!

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)