Thoughts and Reflections: Thucydides

        The method he followed, as he himself informs us in the Methodenkapital  is either to relate his own testification or those of his first-hand eye witnesses, checking their validity by the way of comparison. The history he made use of set speeches some of which were delivered just before and others during war. And also he had made it a principle not write down the first story that came his way, and should not be even guided by his own general way. Also he would present himself at the vents which he have described or else he heard of them from eye-witnesses whose reports, he have checked with as much thoroughness as possible.  Thucydides wrote these for the Greeks.