Word: thucydidesã
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...MODERN DAY THUCYDIDES?...
...Joseph S. Linhart ’03 said he fancied himself a “modern day Thucydides?? during his year-long deployment in Iraq, keeping a journal of his life between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers...
...ugly girls, stupid people, law firms, hotel employees, self-righteous d-bags, the very limits of human existence—Max has striven to break through boundaries and has sought to stake a claim for himself as a human being you may try to go over but never around. Thucydides?? Melian Dialogue brings us the famous Athenian claim that “the strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must.” Max’s life is this principle realized.He tried to clarify his message to the Bell...
...understand how the War Dead can be exploited, read the great funeral oration over them by Pericles, one of the most noted politicians of ancient Athens. Recorded in Thucydides?? history of the Peloponnesian War, the speech brilliantly sets out reasons why Athenian democracy and openness made Athens superior to all other cities. We are righteous, Pericles argues; therefore, this war is right...
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