![]() ![]() The coming and the fighting of the Great Peloponnesian War is a subject that had tremendous importance for the Greeks themselves and it has been one of the things that has occupied people interested in the ancient Greeks more than most thing, partly because of its own extraordinary importance, but I think perhaps even more because of the fact that it was described for us by a participant, a contemporary Thucydides, the son of Olorus an Athenian, who by common consent throughout the millennia has been agreed upon as one of the great historians ever, sort of the second one that we know of in all of history, but also one who is much esteemed. This herm is a Roman version of a Greek original. Both were writing in the fifth century BCE. He was sceptical of implausible events and is sometimes called ‘the Father of History’. Herodotus travelled and wrote widely and tried to be more impartial. Thucydides was a historian of the wars between Athens and Sparta, in which he championed the Athenian general Perikles. Herms were originally reserved for gods but were used for portrait busts in later times, as in this janiform (looking both ways) example. A herm is a stone rectangular-sectioned pillar topped with a head, usually marking crossroads and boundaries, and functioning as a wayside shrine for travellers. The Importance of the Peloponnesian War and Its Continuing Valueĭouble Herm of Thucydides and Herodotus. ![]()
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