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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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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