‘Athens & Sparta were dragged into confrontation by the ambitions & miscalculations of others… If there is a Thucydides Trap it should be less about ruling or rising powers than that these can get played off against each other’
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These are good times to be a scholar of the classical world. Last summer, Donald Trump issued an order that all federal architecture needed to be ‘beautiful’, noting that the Founding Fathers ‘wanted ...
