What did Thucydides really say on this? And what’s Athens and Sparta got to do with the current state of US-China relations?

Ancient Greek general Phocion, elected 45 times for his leadership, achieved major military triumphs but met a tragic end.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull. They turned off ...

“War,” as Thucydides once wrote, “is a violent teacher.” But it teaches in strange and terrible ways. It exposes illusions, punishes pride and delivers suffering without justice. This the Greeks knew.