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 ...

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

It is a powerful line, but one I fear Rachman has misunderstood. For Thucydides, the Athenian’s statement is pure folly. His arguments prefigure those offered by Alcibiades, a self-interested ...

The idea of Thucydides’ Trap warns that all rising powers threaten established powers. As China increases its power relative to the United States, the theory argues, the two nations are inevitably set ...

Despite Minos’s mythological status, the historian Thucydides—working at the height of Athens’s golden age in the fifth century B.C.—wrote of him as if he were a historical figure ...

Thucydides, the ancient Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, has long been considered the father of both scientific history and political realism. But how extensive is ...

Ramanuja, Martin Luther, the Republicans in France who caused the revolution, William Gladstone in Britain, Abraham Lincoln in America, Vladimir Lenin in Russia, Margaret Thatcher in Britain, Franklin ...

The Funeral Oration has become one of the most famous and influential passages in Thucydides’ work; it offers a stirring tribute to the culture of Athens, to democracy and freedom, and it celebrates ...

The $9 toll is bringing in millions in much-needed revenue and making life more livable in the most congested parts of Manhattan. The president hates it.

And victims, of course, should not be held up as aggressors. Who’s surprised? It’s an age-old debate. The political historian Thucydides anticipated the Trump-Zelenskyy conversation in detail in his ...