He tells about this, not in volumes of self-justification, but in one sentence of his history of the war-that it befell him to be an exile for twenty years. Later, as general in 423 he failed to save Amphipolis from the enemy and was disgraced. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague which he described so graphically. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles.
Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BCE.
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