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There are a couple of exceptions,
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but even then he doesn't mention anybody,
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who holds the view he's going to refute.
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He just puts forward the view.
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He gives the reader only the necessary facts and conclusions that
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he has distilled from them after careful investigation and thought.
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He has been so successful that for more than 2,400 years
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few readers have been aware that any other opinion existed.
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But a careful reading of Thucydides himself and of a few other
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ancient sources shows that there were other opinions
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in Thucydides' time and that his history is a powerful
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and effective polemic against them.