October 2016 – The Scholar's Stage

Everybody Wants a Thucydides Trap

30 October, 2016Dogs of War, Entangling Alliances, History, Narrative, Romans and Grecians, The Middle Kingdom

This post was originally published as part of the Thucydides Roundtable project over at Zenpundit. I encourage you to read all of the posts in the roundtable. All the world trembles at the dreaded “Thucydides trap.”Of late this phrase has been all the rage. It was first popularized by Graham Allison in 2012, and has only […]

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Why I Read Thucydides

17 October, 2016Books and Literature, Romans and Grecians

Note to readers: The following post was originally published at Zenpundit as part of the on-going Thucydides Roundtable. I encourage you to follow the comment thread there and read the other participant’s posts as they are published throughout the week.On a summer night, nearly three thousand years ago, three hundred men of Thebes, wet and mud soaked, snuck into the […]

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