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My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

Thucydides

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Thucydides (or Thoukydides)(c. 472 BC – c. 400 BC) was an ancient Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens. This work is widely regarded a classic and represents the first work of its kind.

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Native Name: Θουκυδίδης

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War is a violent teacher,

but the country went by the names of the different tribes, in particular of the Pelasgian.

But what most oppressed them was that they had two wars at once, and has thus reached a pitch of frenzy which no one would have believed possible if he had heard of it before it had come to pass.

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever. - Thucydides

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