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by hogFeast 2352 days ago
One of the funniest things I have heard said about Thucydides.

Were you just like: "Bro, if the Delian League could see you two now?" laughs quietly to self and walks out the room shaking head

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There was me and 4 or 5 others renting a huge, cheap Sydney house. My girlfriend and her best friend (early 20s, involved in uni politics) were fighting, and there was a couple in their 40s that had split up, he (a playwright) wanted her out immediately, and she was being hilariously cruel. I came back from visiting my parents to find everyone fighting with each other. I'd just gotten through Herodotus, with great pleasure, but the Melian Dialogue was too much, too in-my-face, sickening.