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Thucydides

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Thucydides and the Persian Empire

Thucidades was a kind of world war historian. He's following, as you rightly said in your introduction, herodotus. But whereas herodotus took a a foreign subject, as it were. His main subject was the rise of the persian empire and the impact that had on the greek world. Thucydides comes after the greek or persian wars,. which were a success, and he deals with a period of tragedy. The key thing is that he excluded very, um, deliberately, what hiroditus had talked about mainly, which was the Persian empire.

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