What is the basis for this involvem

What is the basis for this involvement? Is it merely, as has been suggested the pride of one who 'knows better (more exactly)' than everyone else?This would in any case be a possible, though in our view a naive, motive Thucydides is after all the first author who programmatically announces his intention to achieve 'accuracy' in his account of events (1.22.2), and the complaint about the Athenians' failure to give an at all 'accurate' account is literally raised in the sentence quoted above. In addition, it is precisely this excursus which historians and philologists have again and again praised a model of Thucydides' scientific precisionThe question is whether 'accuracy for its own sake' (or 'correction of existing misconceptions') is a sufficient category for understanding the passage, or whether the style of presentation suggests an opening for an additional point of view. To answer this question we must turn to the excursus itself.