The History of Thucydides (lived around 460-400 BC), the founder of scientific historiography, is the most important legacy that ancient Greece left to us and to the whole world, "a perpetual study and not a momentary reading for pleasantness," as he himself declares. His insight into events is so penetrating and his selection of permanent elements in them so accurate, that we feel like a contemporary is writing for us and our times.

The war between Athens and Sparta, a war almost insignificant in the history of humanity, became, thanks to Thucydides' brilliant mind, the global tragedy of war.
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