Obama and Xi Must Think Broadly to Avoid a Classic Trap
Publisher: The New York Times
Author: Graham T. Allison Jr.
Thucydides saw the catastrophic dangers when a standing power fears the rise of a challenger.
Ethics and War in Homer's Iliad | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Publisher: Carnegie Council
Author: Joel Rosenthal
Are the values we bring to war today really the same as they were back in the days of the warring Greeks and Trojans? Or have we evolved morally, as Steven Pinker and others believe? The evidence leads to an answer of yes and no.
Herodotus and the Invention of History
Publisher: Reed Magazine
Author: Raymond Kierstead
Herodotus and the invention of history as another form of storytelling.
The Ancient World | Greece
Publisher: The Guardian
Author: Paul Cartledge
It had paid-up intellectuals and progressive politics, yet ancient Greece was less civil than we are inclined to remember. This news post explains why this is, and how are ancient perceptions can change through time, and translation.
The Iliad and what it can still tell us about war
Publisher: The Guardian
Author: Charlotte Higgins
As the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war holds the country in thrall, Charlotte Higgins reflects on the enduring power of a 3,000-year-old poem, and the eternal takeaways it possesses.
It’s All Greek to Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: The American Conservative
Author: Gary Brecher
A War Like No Other', Victor Davis Hanson, Random House.
The Gymnasium
Publisher: The Atlantic
Author: David William Cheever
"Education among the Greeks was peculiarly calculated for the development of the mind and the body in common. It is from this point of view that we wish to show the nature and preeminence of gymnastics in their times as compared with our own."