Tag: The Peloponnesian War

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Studying Thucydides in Zimbabwe

I received a nice note from a teacher in Zimbabwe (“somewhat isolated from the academic world,” as they put it) commenting that my posts on Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War has helped them and it has paid off for their students. That note, along with other nice comments from students reading the book and finding help […]

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BBC Radio 4 In Our Time: Thucydides

Last week BBC Radio 4’s program “In Our Time” featured a great discussion of Thucydides, his writing, and his role as historian. I don’t know how long this link will remain active so I recommend listening to it soon (although many of their previous episodes are available in their archives). If you’re interested in reading […]

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After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Cartledge

After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Cartledge Emblems of Antiquity series Oxford University Press, 2013 ISBN: 9780199747320 Paul Cartledge’s name has been mentioned on this blog several times—he is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the Faculty of Classics at the University of […]

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Leo Strauss lectures on Thucydides (1972-73)

“How shall we call such a thinking man as Thucydides? The word ‘historian’ is somehow not satisfactory.” Leo Strauss, Lecture 17 “Neither historians nor political scientists can deal with the complexity of true strategy and statecraft. Thucydides does so because his narrative is literature, and literature does not restrict itself. It can say anything that […]