In the very first book of his monumental history of the Peloponnesian War, whilst presenting a preliminary survey of the early Hellene culture up to the point of the war’s outbreak, Thucydides muses about the lack of critical thought given to stories and traditions, “even on matters of contemporary history which have not been obscured […]
Thucydides
Beginning The Peloponnesian War
Thus far in my reading the St. John’s list, each book I have so far read – Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Oresteia and Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus, and the Theban plays, Philoctetes, and Ajax of Sophocles – has been one that I have already previously read at least once. The next book on the […]