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 ...

War was a prominent event in ancient Greece, whether between city states or against foreign powers. However, laws controlled ...

Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy and director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, is the author of “Glory, Humiliation and the Drive to War.” Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, ...

“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 ...

In 2014, the eminent political scientist Graham Allison wrote an influential book called “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?” The subtitle referred to a famous passage ...