So it is not enough to say that Thucydides composed his history according to seasons, grouping within each season everything that concerned each theater of operations: whenever a single action occurs in several theaters, and also whenever a connection is made between actions happening here and there, Thucydides carves up and fragments the account, to whatever extent necessary for the different forces at play to have a specific place of their own, and for the different relationships to have their full impact.