Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
Quoting Thucydides 'The contact with manners then is education and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.'
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