CLA2102 Lecture 7: CLA 2102 - Lecture 7
15 Jan 2017
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This period of ancient history is also know as the. Pentecontaetia (end of the second persian invasion to the. Herodotus" account of historical events ends in 479 bce but new sources pop up including thucidides, diodorus siculus and. Got himself exiled (20 years) in 424 bce for failing to protect an important athenian colony. He traveled extensively during his exile and observed the war outside of the athenian perspective. In 404 bce he returned from exile and began writing his account of the war and the factors leading up to it (creation of the. Around 400 bce he died his written history ends abruptly in. Greek historian who was born in sicily in the 1st century. Wrote a history of the world distant antiquity to the middle of the 1st century bce. It"s clear that he was working with good sources ephorus of.
