@BretDevereaux You write that "Thucydides [was an] aristocratic Athenian[]… frustrated that democracy – in [his] view – let the fickle, uneducated and poor ‘masses’ make decisions that ought to have been left to their ‘betters.’"
What in his History do you infer that from?
As for him being an elite, he tells us himself that he was one of the strategoi (he shows up in his own history, getting played hard by Brasidas) and he also tells us (4.105) of his own holdings in Thrace, which were considerable. So he was rich and prominent, prior to his exile
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No dispute there.
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