But you know, ever since the ancient Greeks - Thucydides wrote about the desire for honor.

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Mr Weld adores Hayek (as well as Thucydides, Nabokov and the Grateful Dead).

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In 1997, before the glow faded from the raves over Thucydides, Strassler started work on the new translation of Herodotus.

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Ten years ago Strassler, 69, published The Landmark Thucydides (Free Press), a 713-page edition of the Greek historian's account of the Peloponnesian War.

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Ten years ago Strassler, 69, published The Landmark Thucydides (Free Press), a desk-whomping 713-page edition of the Greek historian's account of the Peloponnesian War.

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If so, we can expect Thucydides to have the last laugh.

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His lifelong passion is Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War the epic clash between those former allies, militaristic Sparta and democratic Athens, that closed out the fifth century B.

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Thucydides identified man's potential for folly and greatness.

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At the request of the provost he taught a class in ancient Greek literature in translation, sympathizing with students who found Thucydides impenetrable: The Modern Library edition has one map of the entire Hellenic world, with 180 labels on it.

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Brownsville, not Thucydides, taught him that.

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