A reading list for Obama Nov 23, 2008
Historian and public intellectual Gary Wills recommends Books 6 and 7 of "The Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides for the lessons it can teach about the Iraq war. Mystery writer Sara Paretsky suggests "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky and "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett, among others. (Athens Banner-Herald)
The Wisdom of New York Sep 25, 2008
The portrait book drives home the timelessness of our need for warriors by opening with historical figures from the Peloponnesian War (431-422 BC), the Battle of Hastings (1066) and the French and Indian War (1731-1795). The Warriors project is to show that our men and women in uniform our warriors hear a calling. (Townhall.com)
Newsweek: Political punch lines Sep 12, 2008
Greek playwright Aristophanes' satirical comedies were filled with jabs at influential citizen leaders of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. While in exile, Dante Alighieri wrote his "Divine Comedy," in which he placed prominent political figures directly in hell. (MSNBC -- Politics)
The grim realities of power Aug 13, 2008
During the Peloponnesian War, as powerful Athens prepared to put the independent-minded, but tiny, island of Melos to the sword, the Melians appealed to principles of honor and fair play in a bid to save themselves. The Athenians scoffed, noting that "the strong do as they will and the weak suffer as they must." And suffer the Melians did - alone and unassisted. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
The 'Good War' and the Terrible Peace Jun 13, 2008
Historian Hanson should go back to tutoring undergrads about the Peloponnesian War and the Syracuse Expedition. Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of "The Death of the West," and. (Human Events Online)
Words of War May 28, 2008
The author of 17 books with titles like A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, An Autumn of War and Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, he is the senior fellow in residence in classics and military history at the Hoover Institution on the Stanford University campus ... A: I think Thucydides' Peloponnesian War is the most astute. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Memorial Day: Time to Remember, Never to Forget May 25, 2008
This tribute was given to the fallen heroes of the Peloponnesian War more than four centuries before Christ was born. All those who serve in the military are prepared to give their lives for our country. (Townhall.com)
Sanctions and rights - the odd couple May 2, 2008
The legislation warranted mention in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Today the relation between trade and human rights makes front page news. (Asia Times Online)
Schneider Pops Wild Cherry Apr 22, 2008
In response, said daughter and her friends plan a revenge inspired by the Greek play Lysistrata, in which a group of women withhold sex from their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War and secure peace. - Jesse Grant/WireImage. (IGN FilmForce)
Omens, evil dragons, Red Sox wins: What will lunar eclipse bring today? Feb 20, 2008
During the Peloponnesian War, around 415 B.C., the Athenian army was set to retreat from an already-failing battle for the Sicilian city of Syracuse. But a lunar eclipse was seen as a bad omen, and the Athenians stayed put. (AZCentral -- News)
The politics of immigration Jan 10, 2008
" And noisy May Day parades with Mexican flags and heated rhetoric from the National Council of La Raza ("The Race") only turn more people off. It doesn't do any good, either, for a Mexico City functionary to cry about how mean we are to want a secure border with Mexico. Most Americans also tuned that out long ago. They know instead that Mexico cares mostly about sending north those it won't or can't feed and house - so it can skim off from them billions in remittances once immigrants arrive in... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
'Less Safe, Less Free' Jan 6, 2008
It dates to the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens in 431 B.C. Then, Sparta attacked its rival, even though an Athenian attack was far from imminent. War was waged for 30 years. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Seven new hoops feuds -- and what could make them even hotter this season. Nov 21, 2007
Lone Star Showdown: Just like the Second Peloponnesian War: the Athenians vs. the Spartans. 5. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NCAA Basketball)
Local briefs Nov 15, 2007
His newest book, "A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War," was published in 2005. Hanson continues to work with his family on a 40-acre tree and vine farm near Selma. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Free, not always easy Nov 12, 2007
In his "History of the Peloponnesian War," Thucydides called freedom "the secret of happiness" and added that it requires "a brave heart" - by which he meant a willingness to fight for it. The immigrants from China in Ha Jin's "A Free Life," his first novel set in America, discover that freedom also requires a different sort of bravery because it guarantees opportunity but not security. (Boston Globe)
Clever first choice to kick off run of classics Nov 4, 2007
Athens has lost an important battle in the costly, disastrous Peloponnesian War and needs a great poet to set the citizens right. (How times have changed in that regard. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Kagan and Bush both deserve an F in U.S. History Sep 29, 2007
erhaps Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History, should stick to teaching the Peloponnesian War, because when it comes to modern history, he flunks. The renowned classics and history professor incited a small firestorm as one of the highlighted speakers at Yales 9/11 memorial service. (Yale Herald, CT)
Bill Wirtz, 77; owned the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team Sep 27, 2007
"Hull had two contracts -- one with Winnipeg and one with the WHA -- that paid him a total of $2 million. If we [the Blackhawks] sign him for $2 million, what do you pay Stan Mikita and Tony Esposito? And what does another team in the NHL pay its superstars?"The war with the WHA was the third-bloodiest war in history, behind the Civil War and the Peloponnesian War. "Wirtz is survived by his wife, Alice; five children, Rocky, Gail, Karey, Peter and Alyson; and seven grandchildren. His first wife,... (Los Angeles Times)
On display: surf and lesson on ancient Greece Sep 10, 2007
JUST as Lysistrata led women of ancient Greece to withhold sex from their husbands to end the Peloponnesian war, in the play by Aristophanes, APEC wives - and a husband - were urged to exercise a similar influence yesterday. The NSW Greens MP Ian Cohen flashed the cheeky message, "Lysistrata. Make love not war", painted on his surfboard, to the spouses at Bondi Icebergs where they met for lunch yesterday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Mounting toll of friendly fire Aug 24, 2007
According to the British writer Geoffrey Regan, author of Backfire, which chronicles the history of friendly fire, it was first recorded as long as ago as the Peloponnesian war in the fourth century BC.. Estimates of friendly fire losses are hard to assess. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Obama Takes Heat On Pakistan Aug 5, 2007
The lessons of the Peloponnesian war when Athens lost its democratic roots and it s independence, because of her prolonged war with Sparta are very appropriate in our current times. The lessons of the British defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan should have been included in the report. (New York Times)
Traveler's last work an ode to history Jul 23, 2007
The historian's voyages to Egypt, Libya and Italy, and his quest to seize the meaning of history at the time of the Peloponnesian War, served as a mirror to his own quest. The book offers parallel narratives: Kapuscinski wanders as he wonders in what sense the past is different from the present. (San Francisco Chronicle)
On Screen Anti-War Protest Jun 16, 2007
The Lysistrata Project was a reading of an ancient Greek play about women trying to stop men from fighting the Peloponnesian War. It was performed in Burlington and more than a thousand cities worldwide on March 3, 2003, just weeks before the start of the war in Iraq. (WCAX.com, VT)
Cool it -- it's not Cold War Jun 11, 2007
Like the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta in the 5th century B.C., the Cold War was an ideological contest between two superpowers with dramatically different blueprints for the world. That epic struggle is history. (Orlando Sentinel)
MAUREEN DOWD: How we're animalistic -- in ways both good and bad Jun 4, 2007
" The most recent example of the Hellenization of the Bush administration is the president's choice for war czar, Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, who says he loves the Greek military historian Thucydides.Other Thucydides aficionados include Victor Davis Hanson of Selma, who was a war guru to Dick Cheney when the vice president went into the bunker after 9/11 and got into his gloomy Hobbesian phase. (Hobbes' biggest influence was also Thucydides.) Donald Kagan, a respected Yale historian who has... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Pomp and Prejudice May 24, 2007
The university in America traces its origins to Plato's Academy, where Socrates and his young interlocutors were devastated by Sparta's victory over Athens in the Peloponnesian War ... The university in America traces its origins to Plato's Academy, where Socrates and his young interlocutors were devastated by Sparta's victory over Athens in the Peloponnesian War. (Townhall.com)
SUZANNE FIELDS: Pomp and prejudice May 24, 2007
The university in America traced its origins in Plato's Academy, where Socrates and his young interlocutors were devastated by Sparta's victory over Athens in the Peloponnesian War. In their approach to the "examined life," they sought clues to how such catastrophe could be prevented, and reflected on how they could restore the glory that once was their birthright. (Washington Times)
Put to the test May 21, 2007
In a recent history class, they took turns answering questions about the Peloponnesian War. Question 9 went to Joseph Crabb. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Humor me: Class of '07, it's your turn May 8, 2007
You thought that was crazy, but now that you re more mature, you understand that knowing that the Peloponnesian War lasted from 431 to 404 B.C. is essential to your future ... I ll never remember the dates of the Peloponnesian War, and I can t even spell it. (KHOU.com, TX)
Fritz's exit strategy: Longtime UM professor gives final full-time lecture May 5, 2007
might as well be teaching a course on the Peloponnesian War, though I bet most of this class went to see 300,' he said, turning to a few students who hung around after the lecture. o that's a good start. (Missoulian, MT)
Sacrificing for social change in one woman performance of "The Boycott" Apr 6, 2007
The main character Lysistrata, starts a sex boycott in attempt to bring peace and end to the Peloponnesian War. Though circumstances are quite different now than they were in 411 BC; the play's metaphore is still relevant being that if people sacrifice something important, such as sex, they will be fueled to make major social change. (The New Hampshire, NH)
Classic war story of '300' resonates with Marines Mar 26, 2007
Officers are asked to read Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens. (Chicago Tribune)
The One Party Rule Mar 20, 2007
Mellman is a very smart guy who does things like quoting Pericles during the Peloponnesian War ... Mellman is a very smart guy who does things like quoting Pericles during the Peloponnesian War. (Townhall.com)
Meanwhile: Hot times at the 'Hot Gates' Mar 9, 2007
In his book "The Peloponnesian War," Yale's Donald Kagan edges close to describing Sparta as a fascist place, "subordinating individual and family to the needs of the state." In a similar vein, Thermopylae is often hailed by military dead-enders as an evocative triumph of the few over the many. Even if Xerxes's army didn't number 2 million, as contemporaries believed, it did number 400,000, which put the Spartans at well over 1,000-1 underdogs. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Agoge - Spartan Military Training Mar 5, 2007
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A hot time at the 'Hot Gates' Feb 28, 2007
In his book "The Peloponnesian War," Yale's Donald Kagan edges close to describing Sparta as a fascist government, "subordinating individual and family to the needs of the state.". In a similar vein, Thermopylae is often hailed by military dead-enders as an evocative triumph of the few over the many. (Boston Globe)
Bitter tales of combat mistakes Feb 6, 2007
According to British writer Geoffrey Regan, author of Backfire, a history of friendly fire, it was first recorded as long as ago as the Peloponnesian war in the fourth century BC.. Estimates of such losses in the past have, of course, been incredibly hard to assess. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
The Parthenon Jan 23, 2007
It was literally a monument to celebrate Athens military victory over in the Peloponnesian War. Earlier in the 5th century B.C., the Athenians began construction on a temple to Athena on the Acropolis. (Suite101.com)
Redskins comeback big in conference opener Jan 5, 2007
SPARTA After the first three games of its Ottawa-Kent Blue conference opener against Sparta, the Belding varsity volleyball team looked as though they would go the way of the Athenians in the Peloponnesian war. However, the Redskins bounced back in the fourth game to force a first-to-15 game where Belding eventually overtook the Spartans to earn a 3-2 win. (Ionia Sentinel-Standard, MI)
