billionare (25)in #athenians • 8 days agoStories from Thucydides by Thucydides #5/81This, said Archidamus, was a great error; and the event proved that he was right. The Athenians, with their great colonial empire, and complete command of the sea, were quite…billionare (25)in #athenian • 20 days agoStories from Thucydides by Thucydides #4/81New times require new manners, and if you would maintain your great position you must move with the march of events, and abandon your old-fashioned ways. Do not mistake…billionare (25)in #athenian • 24 days agoStories from Thucydides by Thucydides #3/81The Spartans were sluggish and procrastinating by nature, and required some powerful impulse to induce them to act with vigour; and this impulse was now supplied by Corinth. By…billionare (25)in #athenians • 3 months agoStories from Thucydides by Thucydides #2/81The Corinthians, however, were not at all disposed to acquiesce in their defeat, and during the whole of the following year they were busy organising a fresh expedition on a…billionare (25)in #epidamnus • 8 months agoStories from Thucydides by Thucydides #1/81STORIES FROM THUCYDIDES CORINTH AND CORCYRA I It was in a remote corner of the Greek world that the trouble began which was destined to breed such mischief and havoc for the…