Thucydides

 

Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)

“Different eye-witnesses give different accounts of the same events, speaking out of partiality for one side or the other or else from imperfect memories.”

  • History of the Peloponnesian War (Book I, section 22) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).

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