War on the Rocks

Wargaming in the Classroom: An Odyssey

Several years ago, as a new professor at the Marine Corps War College, I spent a huge amount of time putting together the best presentation on Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War ever presented at ...
University of Bristol

Thucydides our Contemporary?

The Athenian historian Thucydides (c.460-c.395 BCE) claimed that his account of the Peloponnesian War would be ‘a possession for ever’, valued by posterity more than by his contemporaries. The history ...
The Harvard Crimson

Professor Bury on "Thucydides"

Professor J. B. Bury, M.A., Litt, D., LL.D., Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, will lecture on "Thucydides" in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at ...
The National Interest

Don’t Exile Thucydides from the War Colleges

Last month at War on the Rocks, Marine War College professor Jim Lacey held forth on how to teach Thucydides. Read the whole thing and hurry back! Let’s congratulate Professor Lacey for raising ...
The Harvard Crimson

GREATNESS OF THUCYDIDES

Professor John B. Bury, M.A., Litt.D., LL.D., Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, delivered a remarkably interesting lecture on "Thucydides" last evening in the Lecture Room of ...
The National Interest

Don't Exile Thucydides from the War Colleges

Last month at War on the Rocks, Marine War College professor Jim Lacey held forth on how to teach Thucydides. Read the whole thing and hurry back! Let’s congratulate Professor Lacey for raising ...