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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
Blegh, I hated Thucydides. .
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I have to stick up for Thucydides here. His history of the Athens/Sparta war is an amazing story. Yes, it's a very long tale, because it was a very long war. He invented "military history" as a genuine discipline for goodness's sake, written by a general who was a participant, and yet who kept a very objective analytical perspective. Give the man some credit :-)