Largely because I've not read Thucydides.
Largely Entirely
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:49, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Ha!
Have you ever read Lucretius' 'On The Nature of the Universe'?

He expounds the theory that everything is made from atoms (I found this amazing) - but also some monumentally incorrect other stuff. It's quite readable for that very reason.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)

I haven't...
... but it's on my list of things to read if I get study leave next year.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)

And...
...oddly enough he suggests there is no such thing as the will of God(s) and that all is down to chance in an indifferent universe.

What tish and pish eh?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:59, Reply)

I kno. Wot a fackin cock eh?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 16:03, Reply)

If he got in the back of my cab...
...I'd tell him to fuck off and shove his didactic poems up his arse the dirty Roman cahnt.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 16:09, Reply)