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The Landmark Thucydides Analysis

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Also, Thucydides is usually viewed as one of the first true historians, because he was able to write from a direct take as it happened without romance. Thucydides was exiled in 424 since he failed to carry out a task. During exile he got information from many eye witnesses. He puts a great value on eyewitness testimony, however Thucydides recognized that it could be unreliable because two people could have different accounts on the same situation. In The Landmark Thucydides (2008) Robert Strassler mentions that, Thucydides illustrates that the funeral ceremonies as, “the dead are laid in the public sepulcher in the most beautiful suburb of the city, in which those who fall in war are always buried,” (Strassler, 110). The beautiful suburb of

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