Thucydides

Who: former Athenian general turned historian after exile, wrote History of the Peloponnesian War

When: 455-399 B.C.E.

Where: Athens, Greece

Significance: chronicled history of the Peloponnesian War with precision (due to 1st hand experience and checking of sources); wrote history influenced by political science; objective; little focus on gods--made power politics, not divine intervention the cause of the war.