In this man's role as a strategoi he was given command of a fleet based in Thasos.  His work was followed up by that of Cratippus and Theopompus, and he failed to keep Brasidas from conquering Amphipolis.  Part of his work involved character studies of Brasidas, Cleon, and Themistocles, and he described the disastrous siege of Syracuse and the funeral oration of Pericles.  While exiled from Athens, he wrote his major work, which was written befor
In this man's role as a strategoi he was given command of a fleet based in Thasos.  His work was followed up by that of Cratippus and Theopompus, and he failed to keep Brasidas from conquering Amphipolis.  Part of his work involved character studies of Brasidas, Cleon, and Themistocles, and he described the disastrous siege of Syracuse and the funeral oration of Pericles.  While exiled from Athens, he wrote his major work, which was written before Lysander's victory at Aegospotami, though it does include the Sicilian expedition and the exploits of Alcibiades.  For 10 points, name this Greek historian of The History of the Peloponnesian War.
In this man's role as a strategoi he was given command of a fleet based in Thasos.  
Thucydides