Great Expectations: The Expected and the Unexpected in Thucydides and in Liberal Education
[[The following text is adapted from a lecture given at the 9th Arthur and Mary Platsis Symposium, which was held on November 7, 2010 at the University of Michigan on the occasion of the retirement of H. Don Cameron. Portions of the text may be quoted without permission provided credit is given. The text is still a work in progress.]] Wars—all wars, I believe—are extreme cases of a much wider… Read more