Sliding to the other side of the spectrum, my paper written the first week of school, on the scandals plaguing the Clinton administration is to be considered completely unfactual. That’s not to say that the things I wrote about did not happen, in fact they did. However, the paper was written completely from memory of events which have taken place over the last six years or so. The brain may be an amazing organ, but surely not accurate enough to base history on. No formal research was performed, and in fact, I wro

te it from someone else’s point of view. Mainly though, all of the information

Thucydides on the other hand was in the midst of the Peloponnesian war throughout its stay. The amazing thing about his accounts is that even though he was an Athenian citizen, he was able to remain unbiased for the most part when dealing with the actual accounts of battles and so forth. Thucydides was able to reiterate several debates and discussions of which it is obvious he attended. One of which was “The Mytilenian Debate” for which the city of Athens was trying to decide the fate of the revolutionaries. He recollects that the Athenian’s “Bitterness of their feelings was considerably increased by the fact that the Peloponnesian fleet had actually dared to cross over to Ionia to support the revolt. This, it was thought, could never have happened unless the revolt had been long premeditated” (212). He was able to show how the Athenians were thinking in regards to their own welfare, without confusing it with emotion. As well, Thucydides went on to portray both sides of the debate well, almost letting the reader decide which decision was correct.

tragedy of the war is that neither side really won. People were killed, land destroyed, and fleets diminished, yet in the end the bystanders, the Persians, came in and overtook everything.

Some topics in this essay:
Melian Dialogue”, Peloponnesian War, Mytilenian Debate”, Athens Thucydides, Truth Throughout, Alcibiades Nicias’, thucydides able, paper written, peloponnesian war,