Thucydides Sees Obama Coming
13th June 2011
Family relations were a weaker tie than party membership, since party members were more ready to go to any extreme for any reason whatever. These parties were not formed to enjoy the benefits of established laws, but to acquire power by overthrowing the existing regime; and the members of these parties felt confidence in each other not because of any fellowship in a religious communion, but because they were partners in crime. If an opponent made a reasonable speech, the party in power, so far from giving it a generous reception, took every precaution to see that it had no practical effect.
— Peloponnesian War 3:82.
There is nothing new under the sun….
June 14th, 2011 at 05:06
The Civil War in Corcyra chapter of Thucydides seems especially relevant to me these days.
June 14th, 2011 at 07:18
Unfortunately, few read Thucydides these days.