Tag Archives: Thucydides

Should We Panic?

I never take public transport. Well, almost never. In the last ten years in this country, I’ve probably gone on a train and/or bus -combined- 8 times? So it was a bit out of the ordinary that I took the Subte on Tuesday ‘for fun’ to the hospital to pick up some routine check up

Written on March 9, 2020 at 4:35 pm, by plato

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Categories: Dialectics

Tags: Athenian Plague, Coronavirus, Epicurus, Marcus Aurelius, Panic, Plague, Thucydides

Reflections on the Brevity of Life

By David Hooker, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Weekly “Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” So said the 17th Century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes in his magnum opus, Leviathan. It is a stark and negative statement, to be sure. Of course, Hobbes had in mind that the life of ordinary people would go much better under

Written on November 15, 2019 at 6:00 am, by David Hooker

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Aristotle, death of socrates, Peloponessian War, pericles, Pericles Funeral Oration, socrates, Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides

The Darkest Depths of Human Nature: Three Examples From the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides, the ancient Greek historian and general, is most famous for his narrative of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC). The war was a struggle between Athens and Sparta and led to all-out war between the Greek city states as they sided with one or the other. Thucydides documented not only the military and political decisions

Written on October 4, 2019 at 9:20 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: History, Military History

Tags: Ancient Warfare, Athens, History of the Peloponnesian War, Peloponessian War, Sparta, Thucydides

The Birth of the Biography

By Ben Potter, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom What springs to mind when we think about literature of the Ancient World? Maybe it’s Homer’s Achilles dragging the corpse of Hector around Troy or Sophocles’ Oedipus stabbing out his polluted eyes. Perhaps it’s Plato’s Socrates holding forth or Herodotus’ Leonidas and his 300 Spartans. It even might

Written on July 5, 2019 at 12:38 pm, by Ben Potter

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Categories: History

Tags: Antony, Aristotle, Augustus, biography, Cleopatra, Funeral Oration, Hadrian, Herodotus, History, Homer, Josephus, Julius Caesar, Odyssey, pericles, Plutarch, Septimius Severus, Suetonius, Sulla and Sallust, Tacitus, Theopompus, Thucydides, Tiberius, Timaeus, Xenophon

Thucydides Vs Herodotus: Which Historian Wins?

By Ben Potter There has been a great deal of focus on the differences between Herodotus and Thucydides. Both men have been granted the ‘father of history’ accolade, but chronologically Herodotus must be the winner of the distinction as Thucydides picks up where he leaves off. For those in need of a quick recap, Herodotus

Written on July 23, 2018 at 10:59 pm, by plato

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Categories: Historians

Tags: Ancient Historians, Father of History, Herodotus, History of the Peloponnesian War, Homer, Niccolo Machiavelli, Pliny the Elder, Polybius, The Histories, Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, U.S. Naval College

The Rise and Fall of the Athenian Empire (part 1)

Those of you who are members of the Classical Wisdom Society know that this month we have been looking at Herodotus’ The Histories and the epic struggle for supremacy that was the Greco-Persian wars. And that certainly is a topic worth discussing. It has been argued that had the Greeks been unable to stay

Written on March 23, 2015 at 3:48 pm, by Socrates

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Categories: Empires

Tags: Athenian Empire, Athens, Sparta, Thucydides

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