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How do the political philosophies described by De Coulanges (a secondary historian) and Thucydides (a primary historian) most importantly differ from our own and, yet, in what ways does one account also differ from the other? With what families of political philosophies -- communalistic or individualistic -- would you most closely associate that which they jointly describe (note the authors are not necessarily adherents)?
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