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 ...

Starting with the Trojan Wat in the early thirteenth century BCE, the Greeks embarked on a gigantic Grexit that lasted for centuries. They migrated to other more prosperous lands than Hellas / Greece.

During their high-stakes meeting in Beijing this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly asked US President Donald Trump if the two countries could overcome the “Thucydides trap”. This phrase, ...

“For a superpower, dealing with the fast rise of a rich, brash competitor has always been an iffy thing . . . . Ask Thucydides, the Athenian historian whose tome on the Peloponnesian War has ruined ...

Thucydides is considered the ‘guiding light’ of political realism, the philosophy that states operate out of self-interest ...

“If we wish to understand our world, we would do well to initiate our studies by reading and rereading the Athenian’s account of his own world and of the upheavals it underwent in the course of his ...

Greek and English on opposite pages. Half-title: Thucydides. Volume 1 and 2 are revised editions. Vol. 1 first published 1919; vol. 2 first published 1920. siris_sil_190949 ...

Demosthenes was a talented ancient Greek general skilled in surprise attacks, who fought for Athens during the Peloponnesian War.