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You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet—you've not got your niche in creation.
Thucydides
Born: 460 BC
Died: 400 BC (aged 60)
Bio: Thucydides was an Athenian historian, political philosopher and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC.
Known for:
- The History of the Peloponnesian War
- The landmark Thucydides
- On justice, power, and human nature
- Thucydides
- Hellenica
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