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Thucydides

In Our Time

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Herodetus vs Heroditusum

There's a sense that phusidides is in com petition with heroditus, even though he isn't mentioned by name. There are elements of imitation there as well as rivalry. Herodias seems to be willing to invoke god's myths and thusidities is much more careful about that. Much more rationalist. I mean, fuciditi's history is sort of marked by its absence of focus on religious explanation.

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