How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy

Saturday, March 2, 2019

Johanna Hanink, associate professor of classics at Brown University, talks about her book How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy, published by Princeton University Press. She has selected, translated, and introduced key speeches from Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. From the "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers" series



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I teach them all the good I can, and recommend them to others from whom I think they will get some moral benefit. And the treasures that the wise men of old have left us in their writings I open and explore with my friends. If we come on any good thing, we extract it, and we set much store on being useful to one another. - Socrates, Memorabilia
 
 
 
What we maintain is that in none of the problems of life can men afford to lose sight of the storehouse bequeathed to them by the ancients. In the complexus of everything which differentiates man from the brute creation, the voice of antiquity must be heard...

-H. Browne, quoted in "Classics and Citizenship" The Classical Quarterly, 1920