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A 9 pages research paper that discusses contemporary scholarship explores the various ways in which Thucydides' History has been conceptualized relative to its accuracy, as well as how scholars have perceived both his merits and defects. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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War, which is a "masterpiece of military and political history" (Bushnell 59). While this evaluation remains true, contemporary scholarship has radically altered the traditional view of Thucydides as entirely accurate
and objective scholar who simply reported historical events, rather than being swayed by his own opinions and biases. The following investigation of literature explores the various ways in which
Thucydides History has been conceptualized relatively to its accuracy, as well as how scholars have perceived both his merits and defects. The issue of accuracy
Thucydides begins his account of the Peloponnesian War by identifying himself as an Athenian, and that he began recording his account of the war when it broke out
due to his realization that it would be a the most momentous known to history (Thucydides 3). The traditional view of Thucydides as an historian has focused on his own
assertion of his objectivity and accuracy. However, countering this perspective, Steven Lattimore, in his introduction to his translation of Thucydides, indicates that
recent scholarship on the ancient historian focuses on the "unquestionable power [that] is derived from his artistic ambition and from intense personal emotions that sometimes led him far away from
the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accuracy has been challenged by scholars who feel that Thucydides allowed his artistic intentions
to dominate his accounts of events (Lattimore xiv). This viewpoint is quite different from the way in which Thucydides was perceived throughout the vast majority of the history of Western
civilization, which, from a postmodern perspective, belies the reality of human behavior. In other words, it does not seem surprising that historians would be influenced by their cultural perspective or
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