Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at … - Thucydides

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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.

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