On page 18, he quotes the economist Milton Friedman ... Maybe, but it is not enough to count as “history.” Thucydides’ judgment is suspect as well. A participant in the Peloponnesian ...

In Thucydides, the war found an author of meticulous standard and dedication who created a work that still resonates in the disciplines of history, international relations, and political science.

Where modern analysts often search for predictive patterns and system-level explanations, Thucydides drew attention to the role of choice, perception and emotion. His history is filled with the ...

2. Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. Rex Warner (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1954), p. 48. 3. T he problem, unfortunately, is that most statesmen and military leaders ...

While empires old and new have collided many times since Thucydides wrote in the fifth century B.C., his History of the Peloponnesian War remains compelling because of how closely the tensions ...

The Athenian writer Thucydides is often considered the father of scientific or objective history — the sort of history, in other words, pregnant with precedent. Modern scholars have described ...

It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian. His account of the conflict is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History is ...

He really nailed Thucydides. To the father of history, getting the “storyline ... akin to a palace coup by neocons. On page 18, he quotes the economist Milton Friedman, “Only a crisis ...