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What would Thucydides say?

14th January 2025 Going Postal 0

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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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 6

14th March 2021 1642again 0

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 0

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…]

1642again, Going Postal
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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 4

21st February 2021 1642again 0

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…]

Book Review

Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 3

14th February 2021 1642again 0

The Ruinous Logic of Empire – The Mytilenian Debates and Melian Dialogue These two episodes in Thucydides’ account of the war seem to fit together, firstly the Mytilenian Debates in the Athenians Assembly in 427 [more…]

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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 2

7th February 2021 1642again 0

Pericles’ Funeral Oration and the Great Plague of Athens In Part 1 of this series of articles about what is widely regarded as the greatest surviving piece of ancient historical writing, I tried to sketch [more…]

Book Review

Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 1

17th January 2021 1642again 0

I have long wanted to write about Thucydides, widely regarded as the greatest historian of the ancient world and, as far as we know, only the second of the discipline after Herodotus’ account of the [more…]

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