Thucydides in the Ukraine

Thucydides in the Ukraine
A statue of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides outside the Austrian parliament in Vienna. sianstock/Shutterstock
Geoffrey Clarfield
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Thucydides was a Greek historian. He lived and wrote 2,400 years ago. He was both a general and a chronicler of what has come to be called the Peloponnesian War. It began in 431 BC and ended in 404 BC.

Geoffrey Clarfield
Geoffrey Clarfield
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Geoffrey Clarfield is an anthropologist-at-large who has spent 20 years travelling, living, and working in East Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
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