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Query: The Greeks defeat themselves in Civil War

The first true 'objective' historian tells the story of the long- war between his native Athens and Sparta for domination of Greece. The work is one of the foundation-stones in historical writing.The work makes great uses of ' speeches of persuasion' in its depiction of democratic Athens at war. The most famous of these is Pericles great funeral oration in which he lauds Athenian democracy.Thucydides shows the Athenians triumphantly marching out to war, and the result many years later when beaten and broken , dispirited and defeated they return home.He too shows how the overall bickering among the Greeks themselves, the civil war itself, undermined the Greek city- states and led them to weakness and decline.Here the political price of diviseness is shown to be tragically great.