The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked to frame the escalating rivalry between the United States and China. Coined ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

Sanctions date back to antiquity, with the "Megarian Decree" issued by Athenian statesman Pericles in 432 BC being the first ...

For instance, bk. 1, chap. 121, sec. 4 of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War would be cited Thuc. 1.121.4. All translations of ancient Greek texts are the author’s unless otherwise noted. 1 ...

The character of warfare has changed over millennia, but it has always remained a fundamentally human endeavor. What will happen when artificial intelligence commands it? The Department of the Air ...

The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

The Peloponnesian War in which Athens fought Sparta began in 431 B.C. At the outset, the Athenian statesman Pericles ordered all inhabitants of the Attica region to take refuge within the capital ...

Two of the six books on the shortlist for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction are by Irish authors: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, set in Butte, Montana, in 1891, and Ferdia ...

The political historian Thucydides anticipated the Trump-Zelenskyy conversation in detail in his "History of the Peloponnesian War." The Melians had shown no aggression, but the Athenians needed ...