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Thucydides

In Our Time

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The History of War, Diplomacy and Politics

Fusidites is trying to tell us about the reasons that people went to war. What i've got against these sundays is he writes the history of war, diplomacy and politics in such a narrow way. There are 50 references in the entire work to individual women or electives of women. In herodotus, there are hundreds. He's not interested much in barbarians, and that means especially persia. And so you lose that whole dimension of the greek world being within the barbarian framework.

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