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Thucydides
Thucydides manuscript, 3rd century bc (Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, P. Hamburg 163).
Thucydides' 20-year exile concluded in 404 BCE, following the fall of Athens and the peace agreement that ended the Peloponnesian War.1