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Polybius is very good, but Thucydides is brilliant.
His account of the development of civil strife on Corcyra should be on everyone's reading list, since so much civil strife follows that pattern in all eras.
And the devastating ironies he puts in Pericles' mouth for the Funeral Oration are for all time. "Our city is an education for Greece..." And oh how Thucydides meant that history to be an education for the dear reader!
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