![]() ![]() Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (Random House, 2006) Professor of Ancient History at the University of BristolĮmily Greenwood, Thucydides and the Shaping of History (Bristol Classical Press, 2005) Today his work is still widely studied at military colleges and in the field of international relations for the insight it brings to bear on complex political situations.Įmeritus Professor of Greek Culture and AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, CambridgeĪssociate Professor in Classics and Intellectual History at the University of Reading ![]() Thucydides was arguably the first historian to make a conscious attempt to be objective, bringing a rational and impartial approach to his scholarship. This work is now seen as one of the first great masterpieces of history writing, a book which influenced writers for centuries afterwards. In the fifth century BC Thucydides wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War, an account of a conflict in which he had himself taken part. Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. ![]()
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