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Its sophisticated appraisal of human psychology, the effects of chance, and the impact of internal and external factors on societies at war defies simplistic interpretation. The text is an enthralling yet challenging account of the catastrophic impact of the 27-year war between Athens and Sparta during the 5 th Century BC. Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian Waris generally acknowledged to be an outstanding example of military historiography. In Wikisource, The Free Library.“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must” Thucydides

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How can we make them more fun in order to atract a base of people who want to stay? One way is to have an active social bonding of something, but it should be linked to the activity, the reading and discussing of books.

The reading groups are a new phenomenon.

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In what way can we improve the Wikipedia articles related to the Peloponnesian Wars and Thucydides? There is a big chance that the wikipedia articles have not been created by people who had the original sources or high quality secondary literature at hand, so improvement could be easy.

(Some typical questions a historian should ask): What is the purpose of the text of Thucydides? (Does he have a political aim? Is he honest with his facts?) What story is being told? Do we miss some information? What can we know about the Greek society thanks to the text?.

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place: IRC chat, we will join at #thucydides (don't forget to also look in #wikiversity-en).mathematics because you can join at any time.) (Even if you can not read all aphorisms before, we can give you a short intro -> My history teacher always told: history is better in one aspect than e.g. date: postponed untill after the northern spring or southern autumn/fall.Richard Crawley: The History of the Peloponnesian War Thomas Hobbes Benjamin Jowett Schedule and tasks Next meeting