Examples of using Thucydides in English and their translations into Hebrew
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He's Greek. His name's Thucydides.
Thucydides writes of such sickness.
I think we're going to rewrite Thucydides.
But Thucydides did more than this.
And hence, a whole literature about something called the Thucydides Trap.
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War.
In 1628 he published a translation of Thucydides, partly to warn his fellow-countrymen of the dangers of democracy.
Thucydides said,"We are either kings among men or the pawns of kings.".
Indeed, neorealists often argue that the ordering principle of the international systemhas not fundamentally changed from the time of Thucydides to the advent of nuclear warfare.
So imagine if Thucydides were watching planet Earth today.
The antecedents of European politics trace their roots back even earlier than Plato and Aristotle, particularly in the works of Homer,Hesiod, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Euripides.
I think Thucydides really spoke to us very clearly in 430 B.C. He put it nicely.
Odomanti or Odomantes(Ancient Greek: Ὀδόμαντες) were an ancient Thracian tribe. Some regard it as Paeonian,[1] while others claim, that the tribe was with certainty Thracian.[2]The Odomanti are noted by Herodotus, Thucydides, Stephanus of Byzantium and Pliny the Elder.
Thucydides: an exile from Athens, a city ruled by democrats, who turned into an abashed booster of the oligarchic Peloponnesian League.
He's working on a single project at the moment, which is, does the Thucydides Trap about the inevitably of war between rising powers and established great powers apply to the future of China-U.S. relations?
Thucydides, the great historian of the the Peloponnesian War, said it was the rise in the power of Athens and the fear it created in Sparta.
Perhaps many things would have been different in our history and in the history of the civilized world, had only those of our scholars whoknew Greek translated the works of Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato and the other great scholars of Greece at the same time that our holy books were being translated into Greek;
According to Thucydides, it included as many as 150,000 men, but was obliged to retire through the failure of provisions, and the coming winter.
While he mentions numerous Greek writers(Berossus, Manetho, a mysterious Apollonius, Menander of Ephesus,Herodotus and Thucydides), he shows little sign of any real influence by them, or indeed of any meaningful education, possibly only being aware of them through his familiarity with Against Apion by Josephus, whom he refers to as the"teacher of the Jews".
Thucydides recalls that 7,000 inhabitants of Hyccara in Sicily were taken prisoner by Nicias and sold for 120 talents in the neighbouring village of Catania.
So, about this war that destroyed classical Greece, Thucydides wrote famously:"It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made the war inevitable.".
Thucydides noted that"the more ancient Dionysia were celebrated on the twelfth day of the month of Anthesterion in the temple of Dionysus Limnaios("Dionysus in the Marshes").
In the first legendary oration Thucydides puts in his mouth, Pericles advised the Athenians not to yield to their opponents' demands, since they were militarily stronger.
Thucydides meanwhile clearly states that in the time of the Persian Wars, the majority of the Greek navies consisted of(probably two-tiered) penteconters and ploia makrá("long ships").
Through study of history(work of Thucydides and Machiavelli) and reflection and deep epistemological disagreement with Idealism, the dominant International relations theory between the World Wars, he came up with realism.
Thucydides' modern commentators are still trying to unravel the puzzle of Pericles' orations and to figure out if the wording belongs to the Athenian statesman or the historian.
According to the Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides, a royal dynasty emerged from among the Odrysian tribe in Thrace around the end of the 5th century BC, which came to dominate much of the area and peoples between the Danube and the Aegean for the next century.
Thucydides, in his account of these events, describes a series of complex machinations by Themistocles through which he distracted and delayed the Spartans until the walls were built up high enough to provide adequate protection.[4].
After Thucydides' ostracism, Pericles was re-elected yearly to the generalship, the only office he ever officially occupied, although his influence was so great as to make him the de facto ruler of the state.