Lucas Goussard

Hugo Keller

Thucydides
Oral presentation
I) Who is Thucydides?
 • Strategos is a compound of two Greek
words: stratos and agos. Stratos
(στρατός) means "army"

• Agos (ἀγός) means "leader", from agein

(ἄγειν) "to lead",
Strategos • Strategos is used in Greek to mean
military general.

• In the Hellenistic world and the Eastern

Roman Empire, the term was also used
to describe a military governo
 • In Ancient Greece, a deme was a
suburb or a subdivision of Athens and
other city-states

• Halimus or Halimous was a deme of

Deme ancient Athens, I was situated on the

coast between Phalerum and Aexone,

• Halimus was the deme of Thucydides

• The site of Halimus is located north of

modern Ágios Kosmás
Deme

However, even though During the time of Although demes

There are evidences
they were around in Cleisthenes, they played existed before
that demes existed
some form, they actually a part in the reforms that Cleisthenes, they
since the 6th Century
didn’t become important he eventually made became truly important
B.C
until much later concerning how to during his reforms
define citizenship
II) Work and
objectives of
Thucydides
Peloponnesian War
• Ancient Greek war fought between
Athens and Sparta and their respective
allies for the hegemony of the Greek
world.

• Date: 431 – April 25, 404 BC

• Result:
• Peloponnesian League victory
• Thirty Tyrants installed in Athens
• Spartan hegemony
 III) His historical
influencies and legagy
Thank you !