Fletcher experts analyze the 2026 conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran fletcher.tufts.edu/news-media-m... #TrumpNetanyahu #IranWar #ChangingWar #WorldOrder #InternationalLaw #GlobalResponse #Thucydides #AthensHistory #WarLawlessness #ExpertsOpinion 🖌️credits Justin Metz
“Once it sweeps away daily abundance, war is a violent teacher: it makes the passions of most people equal to present need.”
ὁ δὲ πόλεμος ὑφελὼν τὴν εὐπορίαν τοῦ καθ’ ἡμέραν βίαιος διδάσκαλος καὶ πρὸς τὰ
παρόντα τὰς ὀργὰς τῶν πολλῶν ὁμοιοῖ #Thucydides
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The Great Plague of Athens
A new episode of the #History and #Classics #Podcast #InstantClassics with #MaryBeard and #CharlotteHiggins.
#AncientGreece #Thucydides
youtu.be/M5kVjdyU9hM?...
#Thucydides Traps - Neville Morley (@nevillemorley.eurosky.social) @lrb.co.uk Blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
Funny, Thucydides class is gripping my students' attention at the moment.
#Thucydides #alwaysrelevant
‘Thucydides across Athenian and Spartan Contexts' is a new collection of free-access research from Cambridge Uni Press, offering new insights into #Thucydides, Athenian power, democracy, and #Sparta.
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#classics #classicalstudies
“It was winter and it was snowing”
χειμὼν δὲ ἦν καὶ ὑπένειφεν…
#Thucydides
What Thucydides Could Really Teach Trump
“Athens did not fall because it lacked power; power changed Athens”
#realism #geopolitics #Thucydides #War #restraint #Pericles #power #strategy #alliances #Trump #narrative #nato #hubris #melos
Thucydides warned us: power fails not from weakness, but from impatience. Today’s great powers rush, escalate, and exhaust their advantages instead of preserving them.
#Thucydides #GreatPowerPolitics #StrategicPatience
Read Full Article: stratheia.com/the-age-of-s...
Controversial Opinion: Machiavelli's Prince and Thucydides' Melian Dialogue are Misunderstood! youtu.be/VmdhtVaBgzU?si
#Machiavelli #ThePrince #Thucydides #MelianDialogue #PoliticalRealism #HistoryOfIdeas #ClassicalPoliticalThought #MisreadingTheClassics #PowerAndMorality
When Mark Carney quoted Thucydides at Davos this week, he proved what we already know: Ancient Greek thought still shapes how we understand power today. 2,400+ years later, the classics remain essential reading for modern leaders. #Classics #AncientGreece #Thucydides #AncientBluesky
“It was winter and it was snowing”
χειμὼν δὲ ἦν καὶ ὑπένειφεν…
#Thucydides
Think studying Ancient Greek is irrelevant? When Mark Carney quoted Thucydides at Davos, it was because the Thucydides understood power dynamics better than most modern analysts. Ancient Greek isn't dead - it's speaking directly to our present. #Classics #Thucydides #PowerPolitics #AncientGreek
#DarkCarney wouldn't refer #Thucydides without a hard plan. This guy is thorough.
Alternate take.
"Hope is the prop of the desperate." #Thucydides
#Davos #WEF #WorldEconomicForum #GlobalOrder #WorldOrder #AgeOfDanger #Thucydides #Realism #GreatPowerPolitics
#Kurds #KurdishQuestion #StatelessNations #MiddleEast #Syria #Iraq #Turkey #Iran
#Geopolitics #InternationalRelations #ForeignPolicy #GlobalSecurity #PowerPolitics
My latest for @theamargi.bsky.social :The Return of #Thucydides at Davos: Mark Carney, a Broken World Order, and the Kurdish Moment of Truth:
When Carney said “the old order is not coming back,” he wasn’t being dramatic - he was naming a rupture. For Kurds, this is an existential warning.
just made a substantial donation to the @liberalca.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social is doing a fantastic job and I can't imagine anyone else who could meet this particular moment in time. #hegemony #thucydides "Canada thrives because we are Canadian"
“ #Thucydides and #VaclavHavel in the same #speech? The guy sure knows how to tug at my heartstrings. Is this what it feels like being pandered to? Let me just bask in it for a moment.” open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/... #MarkCarney
A photo of Mark Carney
A plaster cast bust of Thucydides, from a Roman copy.
Wikipedia for the people of the moment:
1. Carney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney
2. Thucydides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides
#davos #ancientgreece #wikipedia #carney #thucydides
“The regular meaning of words changed to fit the state of affairs”
καὶ τὴν εἰωθυῖαν ἀξίωσιν τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐς τὰ ἔργα ἀντήλλαξαν τῇ δικαιώσει #Thucydides
lunar delight
The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. — Thucydides
#Thucydides #courage #freedom #happiness
Stephen Miller's statements reminds me of the Melian Dialogue from #Thucydides:
Miller said: “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
#JFK #Thucydides
“…the common cause imperceptibly decays.”
I am not sure the Globe's understanding of the Melian dialogue offers as much hope for Canada as they seem to think it does: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/092ff77... #Thucydides #Venezuela #Melos #Athens #Imperialism
“Once it sweeps away daily abundance, war is a violent teacher: it makes the passions of most men equal to present need.”
ὁ δὲ πόλεμος ὑφελὼν τὴν εὐπορίαν τοῦ καθ’ ἡμέραν βίαιος διδάσκαλος καὶ πρὸς τὰ
παρόντα τὰς ὀργὰς τῶν πολλῶν ὁμοιοῖ #Thucydides
"China is attempting a geopolitical feat without precedent. It seeks to obtain an equal place alongside the United States without triggering “the #Thucydides trap’’—the tendency for rising and established hegemons to come to blows."
Check it out here: doi.org/10.63744/Xcj... #digitalhistory #ancienthistory #digitalhumanities #ancientgreek #history #homer #thucydides
#Thucydides "the Tyrants first thought was always for himself...and for the greatness of his own family." #Trump
