Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. It is therefore increasingly read as a text in politics, international relations and political theory, whose students will find in Thucydides many striking.
His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself: its exercise and effects, its agents and victims, and the arguments through which it is defended and deployed.
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