This is the second part in a two-part series on Thucydides's lessons for the 21st ... "The Greeks very much had this sense … that civilization is a very thin veneer and that under even slight ...

Despite all the excitement, one crucial element of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War seems so far to have escaped notice: Thucydides is an unapologetic elitist. He characterizes the ...

It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian ... the long years of warfare had weakened the entire fabric of Greek civilization. The economic costs of the war were incalculable.

This is the first part in a two-part series on Thucydides's lessons for the 21st ... enormous risk to his person to get on the scene." 'Civilization is a very thin veneer': What the plague of ...

Sometimes an inferno raged. Real tranquillity was rare. Thucydides' major point is that civilization is a thin veneer. Death, destruction, and privation peel it away almost instantly when calamity ...

The contemporary historian was a fixture of the cultural landscape of Greece and Rome from the time of Thucydides onwards ... The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy funds research and ...

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 ...