There are many who say that we reveal our true character in times of adversity. If you listen even half-heartedly, you will here this refrain from corporate TV commercials, some political candidates, and most likely your place of employment. And well, it’s true. Common sense dictates that to defeat Covid-19 we need to come together; we do need to work for the greater good. And if we haven’t been challenged by adversity yet, we are likely to be before all…
On a good day Thucydides is an inscrutable read in the Greek. Despite this, or maybe because of it, the Histories of Thucydides are monument of ancient historiography. Many consider Thucydides (ca.460-395 B.C.E.) the first political scientist because of his perceptive analysis of political behavior and its motivations. Although Thucydides was deeply indebted to Homer and Herodotus, especially the latter, his eight books on the Peloponnesian War represent the West’s best first efforts at writing history from a scientific, objective…