"Surely no more lucid, unillusioned intelligence has ever applied itself to the writing of history."
— Thucydides

January 1, 1970

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J. W. Burrow, A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century (2007), p. 51