Which of the Following Statements About Thucydides Is Correct

question 60

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about Thucydides is correct?

• A)The study of war would reveal general principles of human behavior.
• B)The motives of statesmen were insignificant in studying the historical event.
• C)The historian must entertain rather than enlighten.
• D)History was the work of the gods.
• E)His work represents a rejection of the findings of the Sophists and the Hippocratic doctors.

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