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#Thucydides foresaw his book becoming “a possession for all time.” But I wonder if he foresaw his book: a) being used as context for a role-play computer game played by millions in every corner of the globe: b) inspiring the words “my favourite time period *drool emoticon*” pic.twitter.com/ETAltc3pUm
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I wrote for
@eidolon_journal today about the “complicated” relationship Classics has with translation, and about how much I learned from translating@KonnosPoulis and#Thucydides over the same month last spring. https://eidolon.pub/the-twists-and-turns-of-translation-33f1272dffa8 … -
Agreed! "....nor do I praise those who disparage the idea of deliberating major issues several times" -Diodotus @ Thuc. 3.23, from my new translation of
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Hey so the audio version of How to Think about War (selected speeches of
#Thucydides translated by me) came out today! If you have an@audible_com subscription consider a download: 3hrs of fun, read by and thanks to David de Vrieshttps://www.audible.com/pd/How-to-Think-About-War-Audiobook/1684571251?ref=a_author_Jo_c9_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=a821b5f5-c790-4fb1-bdc3-5faa4b9da39a&pf_rd_r=QV4BQ3ZSMSPQX9MXA8F9& … -
Just finished
@Gilchrist_MA article on “Why#Thucydides Still Matters”. Bravo. Highly recommend!@Strategy_Bridgehttps://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2016/11/30/why-thucydides-still-matters … -
A great start to the
@anu_classics talk on#Thucydides. pic.twitter.com/WIjTZPnNL0
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The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
#Thucydides pic.twitter.com/LsdwT8XtYa
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"The history of the
#Peloponnesian War teaches that victory in such type of a war comes at enormous cost to both sides, often blurring the binary distinction between victor and loser."#Thucydides@HoansSolohttp://bit.ly/2A76YNX -
Save the date! On May 21
@Twhittermarsh and I will be chatting at@heffersbookshop in Cambridge UK about#Thucydides, translation, contemporary classics controversies, and whatever else pops into our heads. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-think-about-war-an-evening-of-thucydides-with-johanna-hanink-tickets-56581159772 … -
A Timely Warning, from
#Thucydides, that "the events which happened in the past and which (human nature being what it is) will, at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future" .... https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/29/what-thucydides-knew-about-the-us-today/ …@nybookspic.twitter.com/66Jfg5miAN
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525 years ago, in an arrangement proving that war between rising and ruling powers is anything but inevitable, Spain and Portugal agreed to the Treaty of Tordesillas and escaped
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Alas, that's democracy.
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Good message this morning in Bahna, as we head out the door for Big Tens.
#Thucydides#GoBluepic.twitter.com/GGyj42gGwF
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Happy to see my short piece on the
#Thucydides trap out! For fun, Chairman#Mao had little patience for - in his words - “many Marxist-Leninist scholars who cannot open their mouths without citing ancient Greece; but as for their own ancestors--sorry, they have been forgotten.”pic.twitter.com/IsiBBYRNBs
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"Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighbouring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. Its administration favours the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a
#democracy.#Thucydides 2.34-46#Pericles#History#Peloponnesianwarpic.twitter.com/aJuOiaUTzQ
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In equating
#Kurds &#Iraqis,#Trump falls on the wrong side of the#Thucydides’ theorem—at the expense of the#USA.http://bit.ly/2yZm1pD -
Britain needs a last-minute
#Greek lesson,@POLITICOEurope: refers to#Thucydides & his book - a masterpiece of political psychology & strategy, arguing that there are strong parallels with Brexit— and Britain would do well to learn from them
https://www.politico.eu/article/britain-brexit-greece-needs-a-last-minute-greek-lesson/ … -
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Ep 45 is out now. Let's emote about
#Thucydides with@Mick_Cook & the always engaging@queenofthinairhttp://thedeadprussian.libsyn.com/episode-45-on-experiencing-thucydides-the-dead-prussian-podcast?tdest_id=337617 …
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