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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Thucydides - The Untold Story

The war that broke Greece: How Athens and Sparta destroyed their own world

The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431 to 404 BCE, is one of the most defining conflicts in the history of the ancient Greeks. The war, which saw Athens and Sparta, along with their respective allies, engage in a protracted war, not only redefined the Greek world but did so…

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War or peace: US, China are stuck in Thucydides trap - can they find a way out?

NEW DELHI: What turns rivalry into war? History suggests it is rarely ideology or ambition alone. More often, it is fear, miscalculation and the inability of old systems to manage new power equations.

The Times of India

Trump’s Board of Peace launches into a warring world

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Mark Carney invoked Thucydides at Davos – what people get wrong about this ancient Greek writer’s take on power

In his speech to this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney mourned the demise of international cooperation by evoking an authority from ancient Greece.

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The Thucydides Trap: Vital lessons from ancient Greece for China and the US … or a load of old claptrap?

The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked to frame the escalating rivalry between the United States and China.

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Trump compared to mobster Tony Soprano by former envoy to Panama

John Feeley launches stinging critique of US president’s bully-boy approach to Latin America

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2,454 years ago, one eerily familiar event led to the downfall of Ancient Athens

As a professor of English and a student of the classics, I suggest that the insights and objectivity of a historian who lived nearly 2,500 years ago can bolster our understanding of the country’s current plight.

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Ancient Greece had extreme polarization and civil strife too -- how Thucydides can help us understand Jan. 6 and its aftermath

The second anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is upon us. And each new revelation about that brutal mob assault on our government raises a host of fresh questions about what transpired in the days prior to January 6, notably who was involved in planning the events of that…

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Tallying the dead is one thing, giving them names would take an 'inexhaustible voice,' as the ancient Greeks knew

The official count of Americans lost to COVID-19 has surpassed 1 million. It is the latest grim milestone that has marked the progression of deaths and infections since the virus took hold in the U.S. in March 2020.

The Conversation

Greek lessons for ASEAN nations

As global superpowers tussle for supremacy, smaller nations need to be nimble to avoid being crushed.

360info

Fate of ancient Athens guides WHO at gathering to plan for next pandemic

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), will have history on his mind when he hosts almost 200 member states at the U.N agency's annual assembly this week.

Reuters

Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war

As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world

Financial Times

Ukraine war: The history of conflict shows how elective wars ultimately fail

Throughout history, elective wars like the one in Ukraine — armed military conflicts that countries wage without compelling and urgent reasons for action — have mostly failed to achieve their aims. Instead, they worsen the problems they set out to solve and often become the undoing of those who started…

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The Ancient Greeks also lived through a plague, and they too blamed their leaders for their suffering

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a scholar of ancient Greek literature, I have returned again and again to the Greek historian Thucydides to try understand the historical parallels to the American response to the health crisis.

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