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This is the reason it will be necessary, in each of the following studies, to consider quite detailed examples and why they are analyzed not only in their structure but word by word. Obviously I do not claim to have explored all the problems presented by the text, or to have considered all aspects of each passage, nor resolved all the difficulties—far from it. Nor can I claim to have dealt with the methodology of the entire work: the task to which L. Bodin committed himself has not been realized here. In any case I have tried, by selecting certain characteristic episodes, to expose the most obvious qualities, and thus to delineate, little by little, the most remarkable aspects of the methodology Thucydides adopted. Moreover, whenever possible, I have tried to place these procedures in the context of the movement of the thought of his contemporaries, to see how Thucydides distinguished himself from his predecessors in order to develop methods similar to our own, and also to see how faithful he remained to ancient customs, enduring or temporary, which today we find confusing precisely because they correspond to something in the classical Greek heritage that has been lost or abandoned.