Thucydides is a rational, not to say scientific, historian interested in nothing but politics, economics, and war. There are no co

Thucydides begins his history by explaining why he thinks that this War is the greatest in which the Greeks were ever involved, even greater than the Trojan War and the Persian Wars, which was Herodotus' focus. He then explains the principles upon which he evaluates evidence; his basic perspective is that human nature is the basic cause of historical events. Thucydides attributes no historical event to either the gods or to fate. He declares that his History will not be so entertaining as some others, such as Herodotus', but instead be a rational analysis that will be useful to those who wish to understand the way things happen, since events similar to those of the past will certainly recur in the future because human nature is unchanging. He analyzes the events of this War, he tel

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