The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.
Robin Waterfield’s new translation of Thucydides’ “The History of the Peloponnesian War” offers clarity but little ...
Retreat of the Athenians from Syracuse during a battle of the Peloponnesian War, from Cassell's 'Universal History,' published in 1888. Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...
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How Thucydides’ trap shaped ancient Athens and Sparta
The Peloponnesian War shows how fear, ambition, and mistrust can escalate into full-scale conflict. Thucydides’ trap helps us ...
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It opens the doors into the nature of the Greeks, their culture, their ...
Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy and director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, is the author of “Glory, Humiliation and the Drive to War.” Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, ...
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED FEW historians of the ancient world put it quite this way, but the Peloponnesian War was won ...
Geopolitical tension looms over American politics, as was evident in last month’s debate when Kamala Harris claimed her rival “sold us out” to China. Though election rhetoric has heightened these ...
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