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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… — Thucydides
- The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn… — Barry S. Strauss
- The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a… — Horace Walpole
- I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical… — Richard Cobden
- I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that… — Pierre Trudeau
- But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also… — Carl Sagan
- Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these? — Niccolo Machiavelli
- In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the… — Simon Schama