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of his failure to save Amphipolis, he was exiled:

Using his status as an exile from Athens to travel freely among the Peloponnesian allies, Thucydides was able to view the war from the perspective of both sides. Thucydides claimed that he began writing his history as soon as the war broke out, because he thought it would be one of the greatest wars waged among the Greeks,

This is all that Thucydides wrote about his own life, but a few other facts are available from reliable contemporary sources.

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