Thucydides - When War Comes

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…here, and right now. This is very harmful for any city, because its decisions now, will change or influence the future. As war comes, it brings down society. Thucydides uses the examples of The Plague in Athens and the civil war in Corcyra to demonstrate the change the citizens of those cities during these harsh times. Complete lawlessness, dissipation of religion and authoritative figures, and many innumerable deaths. When war comes, war comes full force.