I’m an Athenian historian, military general and political realist.

I heard that blabbermouth Herodotus give a lecture when I was 12 years old, but contrary to the story still told about that, I wasn’t really impressed by it: I thought his main problem was that he was equally interested in absolutely everything that ever came to his attention and didn’t distinguish between important stuff and junk.

Rumors of my death in about 400BC were greatly exaggerated, but I‘m an old guy now.