SUBJECT: Thucydides as Science Thucydides as Science (c) Russell McNeil, Malaspina University-College, 1996 Had Thucydides been born a century later (he was born about 460) it is entirely possible he would have contributed more to Greek mathematics and science than to history. The strength and influence Thucydides exerts on the Greek mind draws in part from it's detached vantage. Euclid, and all ...