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Kagan usually says clever things about Thucydides, and Grafton always says clever things about everything he decides to talk about.
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Yes, I quite liked Kagans book on the Peloponeasean war !.... Having read a translation of Thucidides before hand it was
perhaps eye opening to see the critique given to what I read as face value......I guess you could say nievely!
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Good, as usual.
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