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.

On The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, edited & translated by Robin Waterfield. The confusion sown by Saint Jerome illustrates what is at stake in translation. There is another ...

In 431 B.C., Athens and Sparta went to war. Nearly 50 years earlier, in 480 B.C., the two cities had united to lead the Hellenic alliance that repelled a Persian invasion. In the mostly peaceful ...

“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 ...