Sul ruolo ed il concetto di tiche in Tucidide si consulti Lowell Edmunds, III. Thucydides and the Antithesis of Techne-Tyche and Gnome-Tyche, in Chance and Intelligence in Thucydides, collana Loeb Classical Monographs, Cambridge, MA. – London, Harvard University Press, 2013 [1975], pp. 143-204, DOI:10.4159/harvard.9780674330795.c4, ISBN0-674-10740-3.