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Thucydides: Fact-Grubber or Philosopher?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2009

David Whitehead
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Extract

It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the significance, whether historical or historiographical, of the year 431 BC:historical, in that it saw the outbreak of a war which in its scope and consequences was to be unprecedented in the Greek world of its day; and historiographical, because a serious-minded young man in Athens realized the importance of what was happening and made up his mind to put it on record for posterity.

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Research Article
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , October 1980 , pp. 158 - 165
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1980

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References

NOTES

1. Finley, M. I., in his Introduction to Rex Warner's translation of Thucydides (Harmondsworth, 1972), pp. 28–9Google Scholar.

2. In The Oxford Classical Dictionary (2nd edn., Oxford, 1970), p. 1068Google Scholar.

3. loc.cit., p. 23.

4. In Fifty Years (and Twelve) of Classical Scholarship (Oxford, 1968), p. 189Google Scholar.