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I like Thucydides fine, but I like Herodotus more. Thucydides doesn't even finish the story and his Greek (esp. the speeches) is hard as hell.
Pericles' funeral oration and the Melian dialogue are unbelievably good, though.
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And yes, we do still disagree about the Greek's place in the history of the study of science. Quite simply, you overemphasize it. The Greeks are a fundamental, innovative, groundbreaking link in the chain. They continued the intellectual inheritances they received from their predecessors, just as the Romans did from the Greeks. As far as you're concerned, history as we know it begins with the Greeks. Much credit is to be given to Hellenic society, but not THAT much credit.
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