Gen. george marshall famously told a princeton commencement audience that it was impossible to think seriously about the future of postwar europe without giving close attention to thucydides on the peloponnesian war .
Ever since thucydides observed that the shift in power from sparta to athens was the fundamental cause of the peloponnesian war , scholars have watched such moments with apprehension .
自从修昔底德指出权力从斯巴达转移到雅典的根本原因是伯罗奔尼撒战争,学者们看到这样的时刻不无忧虑。
Myth says that daedalus flew here from crete and that hercules once slept here . Syracuse was a greek colony that thucydides called " a city not in the least inferior to athens itself . "
锡拉库萨曾是希腊殖民地,修昔底德(thucydides)说它是“丝毫不逊于雅典的城市”。
This was the theory formulated by thucydides to explain the peloponnesian war : commerce and navigation produced an accumulation of resources which was the foundation of the athenian empire , whose aggressive stance provoked spartan resistance .
The term human nature in history of peloponnesian war by thucydides has a broad conception , including born , natural individuals , social beings and the disposition , capability and physiological characteristics shared by all human beings .