A Possession for All Time: How Should We Read Thucydides?

Re:A Possession for All Time: How Should We Read Thucydides? by billfruit on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @01:55PM (#19155622)

Haven't read Thucydides yet, but some of the reasons listed for reading him, seems to fit as well to Plutarch also. I think there may be more variety in Plutarch though, because he wrote about a more wider variety of people and things.

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Re:A Possession for All Time: How Should We Read Thucydides? by scandox on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:26PM (#19157739)

There's a world of difference. Plutarch is - as an old friend of mine once said - "an old club bore telling rambling anecdotes about famous men". Thucydides work is incisive and focused.

Both are enjoyable though.

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