We can see a connection between ano

We can see a connection between another aspect of the content of this speech and the words of Thucydides himself. Analysis has shown that Pericles (1.140 f.) and Archidamus judge the prospects of the war in a similar fashion," and Pericles' strategy (which builds on this judgment) is viewed by Thucydides himself as essentially promising (2.65).To Archidamus' sentence quoted above one need only compare Pericles (1.141.5: cf. 142.1): 'it is the superiority of resources that keeps a war going rather than taxes exacted by force'.A further point which is in agreement with the historian's own judgment (1.23) is that Archidamus—on this point even closer to Thucydides than Pericles—sees war primarily as something negative: 'I myself have experienced already many wars, Spartans, and I see my agemates among you in the same condition, so that no one will strive for war out of inexperience...or under the impression that it is something good or safe' (80.1) I hope to be able to show in the next chapter that the relationship between anticipating expectation and concrete (correcting) experience is a genuinely Thucydidean problem. Let us here anticipate this much: that Thucydides seems to value more highly an opinion which takes account of earlier experience when considering the future because it is more seriously aware of the possible negative consequences.