How did the first democracy die?

282.639 - 302.65 Lawrence Sammons II

When I got to graduate school, I still thought I was going to be a Roman historian, but it was really Thucydides that dragged me into Athenian history. I found him so interesting that I abandoned my Roman studies and focused on the Greeks. And what was it about Thucydides? What about the way that he wrote? He was so dark. I mean, Thucydides has an extremely dark view of human nature.