Thucydides (Athenian general and historian, c. 460-404 BCE)
“My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.”
- History of the Peloponnesian War (I.22) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner and introduced by M. I. Finley. New York: Penguin Classics, 1972.
