Category Archives for Thucydides
Intro to Thucydides
Hi Thucydides readers, It was great to get to know some of you on the intro call. For you and especially for those of the group who couldn’t make the call, I have included a quick summary of our thoughts on reading Thucydides below. Also, here’s t… Continue reading
Thucydides Introduction – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for the Thucydides Introduction call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Thucydides-June2007-Introduction.mp3 Continue reading
Book 4 Reading Guide
Folks, Andre has gone ahead and prepared a reading guide with questions for Book 4 of Thucydides. Our next call is coming up this Monday: Thucydides Book 4 Monday, July 10 8pm New York Time 1-800-615-2900 / *844979 Speak to you then! Phil P.S. Ove… Continue reading
Our own times?
I recently found a quote by American revolutionary John Adams that may ring true for all of us today who are reading Thucydides. “When I read them (Thucydides and Tacitus), I seem to be only reading the history of my own times and my own life.” In… Continue reading
American Revolution – anything like Thucydides?
Pat and I were recently discussing Thucydides and his famous comments on the terrors of revolutions. I asked whether the loyalists suffered during the American Revolution in the ways that Thucydides described happened to many during the civil wars… Continue reading
Thucydidean analysis of America today?
Folks, I had lunch yesterday with Julia Sweig, the Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow at the Center for Foreign Policy. She’s just written a new book – “Unfriendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century.” I me… Continue reading
Thucydides Book 3 call
Folks, We had a great call last week discussing Book 3 and reviewing Andre’s reading questions. Book 3 is intense – with the Plataean siege, Mytilenean revolt (and debate between Cleon and Diodotus) and the Corcyrean revolution (and Thucydides’ co… Continue reading
Neocons and Thucydides
As we had discussed in our call last week, the Neocons see Thucydides as a cornerstone for their thoughts on foreign policy. Neoconservatives, or “neocons,” believe in the use of U.S. military might to foster the spread of democracy around the glo… Continue reading
Recording from second half of Book 2
After a “spring break” due to the business and academic calendar, we have picked up our Thucydides again and ran a call last night on the second half of Book 2. Download the mp3 file here to listen to the call: Download T-06-06-Book2.mp3 Here’s hi… Continue reading
Bob Strassler’s answer to a question –
Folks, Last night one of our reading group members asked me why Robert Strassler created the Landmark Edition of Thucydides before creating a Landmark Edition of Herodotus. I asked him – and here’s his answer: “I did Thucydides first because it wa… Continue reading →
12. June 2007 by Arrian
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