{"id":1329,"date":"2017-07-28T13:40:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T17:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2017-07-28T13:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T17:40:26","slug":"recommended-article-victor-davis-hansons-why-is-everyone-suddenly-quoting-thucydides-in-american-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/recommended-article-victor-davis-hansons-why-is-everyone-suddenly-quoting-thucydides-in-american-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Article: Victor Davis Hanson\u2019s \u201cWhy is Everyone Suddenly Quoting Thucydides?\u201d in American Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thucydides is one of the most difficult Greek authors. As I\u2019ve noted elsewhere The Histories of Herodotus are much more fun (both in Greek and English translation).\u00a0 Reading Thucydides is like reading a textbook written by a very \u00a0pedantic professor.\u00a0 I found it very slow going when I only had to translate a few pages back 40 years ago as a student.\u00a0 The Peloponnesian War is recounted battle by battle, march by march and season by season.\u00a0 Only intermittently is there some nugget of historical interest.\u00a0 But the ones you find are sometimes priceless.\u00a0 Hanson is a Classics Professor and actually can read Thucydides in the original Greek so at least he knows what the text is trying to say.\u00a0 Back in high school (or I guess college nowadays) you were given passages from Thucydides such as the Funeral Oration of Pericles or the Melian Dialog.\u00a0 Well the reason we still read Thucydides is because people keep doing the same stupid things war after war.\u00a0 Whether the US and China are fated to battle for supremacy like Sparta and Athens or Rome and Carthage is an important question.\u00a0 If studying the Peloponnesian War teaches us what has failed in the past maybe we can spare the world another bloody catastrophe.\u00a0 That some of the Trump White House is reading it isn’t bad news.\u00a0 Anyway, an interesting read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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