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 Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

Naval War College Review, Vol. 25, No. 3 (January-February 1973), pp. 3-15 (13 pages) The role that power has played in international politics has often been judged in terms of morality. National ...

Thucydides anticipated the Trump-Zelenskyy conversation in his “History of the Peloponnesian War,” in which the islanders of Melos make a case for their freedom to Athens, which wants only surrender ...

The political historian Thucydides anticipated the Trump-Zelenskyy conversation in detail in his "History of the Peloponnesian War." The Melians had shown no aggression, but the Athenians needed ...