Thucydides , 460 BC – c. 395 BC , may have been a participant in the Peloponnesian War, 431 to 404 BC . He claims that he was a participant but contracted the plague that devastated Athens and was exiled . It is highly improbable that he could have been witness to both Athenian and Spartan political dialogues/discourses .

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By his own account, Thucydides son of Oloros commanded part of the Athenian naval forces and was at Thasos in 424-423 BCE and was urgently called to help relieve the seige ofAmpipholis in Thrace led by the Spartan Brasidas. He was too late and set about defending Eion, where he successfully turned back an attack by Brasidas.

In Athens there was alarm at the loss and consequent local surge of support for Brasidas, and it appears Thucydides was made a scapegoat, as he ceased to be a general.

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