If we wish to understand our world, we would do well to initiate our studies by reading and rereading the Athenian’s account of his own world and of the upheavals it underwent in the course of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Retreat of the Athenians from Syracuse during a battle of the Peloponnesian War, from Cassell's 'Universal History,' published in ...

I had thought that reading Robin Waterfield’s new translation of Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War” might offer some understanding, even some consolation, in these times of domestic ...

The Peloponnesian War shows how fear, ambition, and mistrust can escalate into full-scale conflict. Thucydides’ trap helps us understand why rising powers provoke insecurity in dominant states. By ...

Geopolitical tension looms over American politics, as was evident in last month’s debate when Kamala Harris claimed her rival “sold us out” to China. Though election rhetoric has heightened these ...

Traduttore, traditore; translator, traitor. The Italian claim is hyperbolic, but it cannot wholly be gainsaid. There is not a one-to-one correspondence between the denotations of ostensible synonyms ...