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grbs-16144	Kennedy, Scott	A Classic Dethroned: The Decline and Fall of Thucydides in Middle Byzantium	2018	29	.pdf	application/pdf	9977	489	59	610 A CLASSIC DETHRONED ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 58 (2018) 607–635 rhetoric itself,10 Thucydides featured prominently throughout the rhetorical curriculum from beginning exercises to advanced composition such as declamation, in which students would impersonate a figure from antiquity on a real or imagined his- torical occasion. 252.31 Condemning Thucydides for his obscurity and “wooden” style, Tzetzes wished the Athenians had tossed him and his Histories in a dark pit!32 Dark and obscure, Thucydides was slotted for replacement, as the Byzantines modernized their curriculum.	cache/grbs-16144.pdf	txt/grbs-16144.txt