The author who created the source was Thycidides, he was a historian, he was wealthy, he was also an Athenian General. The Source was written in 431-404 B.C. and it was written in or around Athens. It helps knowing a different point of view, so we can differentiate between the different stories. Thycidides was writing mainly to us. The people. The reason he wrote it for us, was he wanted the knowledge to be passed on. The main idea of this passage is the effects of this plague that broke out, during the Peloponnesian War. (The Athenians decided to barricade themselves, to help try and keep them safe. It didn't really work, though, because it broke out in the plague, it was just bad.) It reaches disturbing detail. The Source is important to let people know what happened because we weren't there. So, he was helping us and future generations.
"Now let every man, physician or other, concerning the ground of this sickness, whence it sprung, and what causes he thinks able to produce so great an alteration, speak according to his own knowledge" (Thycidides 48).
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