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Josh




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PostSubject: Did Thucydides make up speeches   Did Thucydides make up speeches I_icon_minitimeThu Dec 16, 2010 10:20 pm

Did he make up the majority of them or did he get them from other sources or listen to them himself.
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PostSubject: Re: Did Thucydides make up speeches   Did Thucydides make up speeches I_icon_minitimeThu Dec 16, 2010 10:35 pm

A combination of all three if I remember. He might have heard some of them (he was involved in the war, after all), but even in those cases it would be really hard for him to remember everything that was said. From what Sosin said, Thucydides wrote what he thought they should have said/would have been appropriate.
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