Join us for a roundtable discussion on the reception of Thucydides in a new light: focusing especially on the 20th century and on contemporary politics from a global perspective. Read more
[This is an early draft of an article eventually published in Pushing the Boundaries of Historia, ed. Mary C. English and Lee Fratantuono, Routledge 2018, pp. 7–12. It appears here by permission of the editors. The page-breaks of the printed version will be indicated within braces: for example, “{7|8}” indicates where page 7 stops and page 8 begins.] The point of departure for this essay is the fact that Herodotus uses… Read more
[[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
