| If Thomas Babington Macaulay gave us the Whig interpretation of history, Victor Davis Hanson has given us the Marvel Comics interpretation, with added Thucydides. |
| Cleon is represented by Aristophanes and Thucydides in an extremely unfavourable light, but neither can be considered an unprejudiced witness. |
| Thucydides crafts levels of antilogy within and between all the elements of his text such that his readers are invited, as a kind of witness both to the war and to human nature. |
| According to the Greek historian Thucydides, a political leader must have not only clean hands but also clear vision. |
| Such is the picture which Thucydides has drawn of the Athenians in their glory. |
| I am reminded of what Thucydides, the Greek historian said, reflecting on the glory of Athens, our first democracy. |
