Thucydides
a. ascribed the final outcome of the Peloponnesian Wars to divine intervention.
b. looked for myths and legends behind historical truth.
c. commanded the Greek fleet at Salamis.
d. commanded the Athenian expedition to Syracuse.
e. rejected the notion that the gods interfere in history.
e
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