Thukydides. Peloponnesos Savaşları

Furkan Akderin (1980-) classical scholar and historian. Akderin graduated in journalism from Istanbul University in 2001 and subsequently studied Ancient History at Marmara University, where he received an M.A. in 2006 with a thesis on ancient Asia Minor. Since 2009 he has been affiliated with Sabancı University. Specializing in translations from Ancient Greek and Latin, he translated numerous classical authors into Turkish, including Thucydides, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plutarch, Arrian, and Marcus Aurelius. He is also the author of works on Latin language and lexicography, including a Latin grammar and Latin-Turkish/Turkish-Latin dictionaries.