CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED FEW historians of the ancient world put it quite this way, but the Peloponnesian War was won ...

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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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Socrates is the most important exponent of Western philosophy, his ideas forming a continuum from Ancient Greece to today's ...

Robin Waterfield’s new translation of Thucydides’ “The History of the Peloponnesian War” offers clarity but little ...

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The €10,000 prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40 ...