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Thucydides' *Histories* is a seminal work of ancient Greek historiography, focusing on the first 20 years of the Peloponnesian War, a devastating conf...
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Thucydides' *Histories* is a seminal work of ancient Greek history, focusing on the first twenty years of the Peloponnesian War, a conflict between At...
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