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What was the strangest death in history?
Renaissance
Name of person | Date of death |
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Pietro Aretino | 21 October 1556 |
Hans Staininger | 1567 |
Marco Antonio Bragadin | 17 August 1571 |
Tycho Brahe | 24 October 1601 |
What is Thucydides famous for?
Thucydides is the author of History of the Peloponnesian War, a sweeping contemporary account of the nearly three-decade conflict between Athens and Sparta for dominance of the Greek world. The eight-volume work is regarded as one of the finest works of history ever written.
Which historical figure died from a nosebleed?
Attila the Hun One of the most vicious men in history, Attila died of a simple nosebleed.
What is unusual death?
A generic term for any death that can be regarded as the opposite of a natural death (i.e., due to age), and usually not due to common diseases or accidents.
Did Thucydides get the plague?
The Plague of Athens is treated by Thucydides in the same way as the war with careful attention to the recording of empirical detail without suggesting any reasons for the epidemic. His purpose is entirely instructive in the hope that future generations would be able to learn from the lessons of the past.
Who is called the father of scientific history?
Thucydides
Thucydides has been dubbed the father of “scientific history” by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the deities, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
What ethnicity is Attila the Hun?
Attila was king of the Huns, a non-Christian people based on the Great Hungarian Plain in the fifth century A.D. At its height, the Hunnic Empire stretched across Central Europe.
Was Attila assassinated?
March 453 AD
Attila/Date of death