Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, the devastating conflict between the Athenian and Spartan empires during the fifth ...

A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.

The political historian Thucydides anticipated the Trump-Zelenskyy conversation in detail in his "History of the Peloponnesian War." The Melians had shown no aggression, but the Athenians needed to ...

The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

For instance, bk. 1, chap. 121, sec. 4 of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War would be cited Thuc. 1.121.4. All translations of ancient Greek texts are the author’s unless otherwise noted. 1 ...

Closer to home, we see this playing out in the context of American oppositional politics. Domestic politics has become a ...

A ssassin’s Creed Shadows may be the latest game in the long-running series, but its feudal Japan setting places it at the ...

If Volodymyr Zelensky, were on my Christmas list, I think I might give him a copy of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian ...

As Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, listened in increasing dismay to President Donald Trump’s display of global whataboutism at the Oval Office on Feb. 28, it was clear he had not ...