The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

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Long ago, a substantial ancient Greek population from the island of Crete lived in the ancient city of Daedala, located in ...

The Peloponnesian War shows how fear, ambition, and mistrust can escalate into full-scale conflict. Thucydides’ trap helps us ...

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A little over 200 years ago, the Greeks began their war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, which had conquered most of ...

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