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What would Thucydides say?

14th January 2025 Going Postal 2757 Comments

Hegel: “What experience and history teach us is this, that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, nor acted in accordance with lessons to be derived from it.” In the weeks after Louis-Napoléon [more…]

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Se non è vero, è ben trovato………

15th April 2024 Going Postal 2248 Comments

“Had he not wrapped himself in a discarded cloak, Ulysses would have frozen to death at Troy. Our hero’s host, Eumaeus the swineherd, hears the story and gets the hint: He loans Ulysses a cloak, [more…]

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Are all civilisations doomed to fail?

28th January 2024 Grimy Miner 2099 Comments

  Throughout history we have seen great civilisations rise, decline and fall. History has this annoying habit of repeating itself, none more so than in the case of human endeavour. As someone famous once said [more…]

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Herodotus and the Histories – Part One

20th February 2022 1642again 2123 Comments

Having finally fulfilled a previous and somewhat rash promise to write about Thucydides and his account of the Peloponnesian War, I thought it about time I write about his forerunner, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who is [more…]

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Why There? Why Then? The First Coming of the Messiah

25th December 2021 1642again 1631 Comments

We are fast approaching Advent, the Christian season that looks forward to Christ’s nativity.  Today I am not going to tell you what you most probably already know about Advent, its significance and meaning, but [more…]

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Wolf Country: A Spiritual History of Iran

24th May 2021 cynic 2687 Comments

Introduction Paropamisidae, Arachosia, Gedrosia, Hyrcania…what strangely mellifluous names were given to the provinces of the Persian Empire conquered by Alexander, whose name became synonymous with evil in the Iranian mind. Hyrcania had echoes even in [more…]

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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 6

14th March 2021 1642again 2153 Comments

The Twin Battles of Mantinea and Cynossema, and Series Conclusion In this final article of the Series, I want to discuss another of Thucydides’ apparent pairs of events – the Battles of Mantinea (late 418 [more…]

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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 5

28th February 2021 1642again 1724 Comments

The Corcyran Stasis as a Template for Civil Strife and War While one might characterise the main theme of Thucydides’ work to be the gradual breakdown of Athens, its constitution, character, morality and eventually its [more…]

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History

Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 4

21st February 2021 1642again 1860 Comments

The Battle of Sphakteria and the Athenian Expedition to Sicily These two battles stand out in a book full of military engagements because of the dramatic nature of the language employed by the author, that [more…]

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