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CT_Paterson wrote

Nothing wrong with that imo as long as you are reading him critically, I've always liked him better than Plato. My exposure was more to the Greek historians and playwrights though, so maybe I don't have enough to compare to. I had to read Thucydides for 4 separate courses when I was in college, and only two of those were actually ancient Greek history.

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Ennui wrote

What were you studying then? Classics?

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CT_Paterson wrote

Not classics, just history. In addition to two courses on ancient Greek history (one focused on Alexander the Great and the other on 5th century BCE Athens), I also was obliged to take a course on "Western Humanities" which had many other ancient Greek readings. The fourth reading of Thucydides was in International Relations--IR theorists, particularly "realists" think of him as their disciplinary founder or precursor even though I would argue a lot of them have pretty weak readings of the text.

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