The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of ... for War” — the phrase refers to a line from the ancient Greek historian Thucydides, who wrote in his “History of the Peloponnesian ...

History repeats as tragedy? Advertisement Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War on the Athenian side. His world was steeped in the sensibilities of Greek tragedy, and his historical narrative ...

His world was steeped in the sensibilities of Greek tragedy ... level explanations, Thucydides drew attention to the role of choice, perception and emotion. His history is filled with the ...