War was a prominent event in ancient Greece, whether between city states or against foreign powers. However, laws controlled ...

Athens' Long Walls prompted distrust and eventual war 2,500 years ago. Nato is the most obvious 'Pericles Wall' of our times Much has been said about Thucydides' trap, but few talk about Pericles' ...

The character of warfare has changed over millennia, but it has always remained a fundamentally human endeavor. What will ...

Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy and director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, is the author of “Glory, Humiliation and the Drive to War.” Sixteen years into the ...

One of the earliest examples of hybrid warfare tactics can be found in the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) between Athens and ...

Ancient Greek history is full of men who left their own mark for their military genius, bravery, artistic greatness, and ...

they will act divergently,” Athenian historian and general Thucydides discussing the 5th century war between Sparta and Athens in his History of the Peloponnesian War. The quote reminded me of ...

The political historian Thucydides anticipated the Trump-Zelenskyy conversation in detail in his "History of the Peloponnesian War ... their empire up against Sparta. The context may be different ...