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Thucydides and Beyond “Thucydides is to my taste the first true model of an historian. He reports the facts without judging them, but he omits none of the circumstances proper to make us judge them for ourselves. He puts all he recounts before the reader’s eyes. Far from putting himself between the events and his readers, he hides himself. The reader no longer believes he reads; he believes he sees.” -Jean Jacques Rousseau from …

…New York: Penguin, 1965), xi. 12Orwin, 59. 13Finley, 295. 14Ibid. 15Ibid., 296. 16Ibid. 17Ibid. 18Francesco Guicciardini, The History of Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), xvii. 19Ibid., 63. 20Finley, 11. 21Cawkwell, 20. Works Cited Cawkwell, George. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. New York: Routledge, 1997. Eusebius. The History of the Church. New York: Penguin, 1965. Finley, M.I. The Portable Greek Historians. New York: Penguin, 1977. Guicciardini, Francesco. The History of Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. Orwin, Clifford. The Humanity of Thucydides. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.