Sphinx

Posted in Musings, User's Guide to Thucydides | Tagged Peloponnesian War, Thucydides | 2 Comments

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1. on July 20, 2017 at 3:24 pm | Reply lagad2012

   the subject still ends up as puzzled at the end as at the beginning. Has anything been resolved!

   
   
   • on July 20, 2017 at 3:49 pm | Reply NevilleMorley

     If only we had the completed version of Book 8, rather than an unrevised and incomplete one… Though I do maintain that the basic aim of the work is to make us think more carefully about the world, rather than supply us with answers.

     
     

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