TUCIDIDE (Athens 460ca-404 BC) greek historian; strategist; was exiled for alleged tactical mistakes in the defense of Amphipolis in Thrace against the Spartan Brasidas. In the twenty years of exile he wrote "The Peloponnesian War". ; On the opposite; which is two-faced; the other great greek historian Herodotus. Portrait by: 'gallery of the ancient Greeks and Romans with a small description of their lives' by Georg Wilhelm Zapf; dedicated the Altitude serenissima Charles Frederick Margrave of Baden; translation from German to Tommaso de Bassus (1742-1815) by Giuseppe Ambrosioni; vol. II; Poschiavo 1784