Thucydides on how civil war & revolutionary zeal change the meaning of words: “what used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as courage... any idea of moderation [as] just an attempt to disguise one’s unmanly character.”https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/29/what-thucydides-knew-about-the-us-today/ …
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Hard to improve on the BBC's dramatization:http://bit.ly/2fVpPzu
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