The Athenian historian Thucydides (c.460-c.395 BCE) claimed that his account of the Peloponnesian War would be ‘a possession for ever’, valued by posterity more than by his contemporaries. The history ...

Professor J. B. Bury, M.A., Litt, D., LL.D., Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, will lecture on "Thucydides" in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at ...

Last month at War on the Rocks, Marine War College professor Jim Lacey held forth on how to teach Thucydides. Read the whole thing and hurry back! Let’s congratulate Professor Lacey for raising ...

Professor John B. Bury, M.A., Litt.D., LL.D., Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, delivered a remarkably interesting lecture on "Thucydides" last evening in the Lecture Room of ...

Thucydides is on a roll these days. The ancient Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, who lived almost 2,500 years ago, makes the title of Graham Allison’s prominent new volume, Destined for War: ...

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* Thucydides suffered the plague himself, but fortunately survived with pain and wisdom. As a committed historian, he recounted the progression of symptoms — fever, cough, diarrhoea, disorientation, ...

Julia Kindt receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). What required such urgent and final attention? And why did Thucydides never return to complete the manuscript? Whatever the ...