Daniel Mendelsohn: “the lessons to be learned from Thucydides are no different from the ones that the tragic playwrights teach: that the arrogant self can become the abject Other; that failure to bend, to negotiate, inevitably results in terrible fracture; that, because we are only human, our knowledge is merely knowingness, our vision partial rather than whole, and we must tread carefully in the world.”
The article is a review of Thucidydes' History and those who have written studies of it, and of the Peloponnesian War itself, as well as a review of the play "Medea". [via rogueclassicism]
