So who in @bookstodon world has read much in the way of #Greek classics? Any favourites, recommended translations, etc.? I've barely tried any but on a recommendation I recently bought the #Waterfield translation of #Herodotus and the #Lattimore version of #Thucydides. I'm slightly daunted but looking forward to getting stuck in! #bookstodon

“And all alike, whether taken all together or as separate classes, have equal rights in a democracy.” — Athenagoras, from The Debate at Syracuse 415 #History #USpol #Fascism #Thucydides #July4th

The secret of happiness is #freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage
#Thucydides

The Pentecontaetia (Pentekontætia, πεντηκονταετία) or “the account of the fifty years” is a term first used by Thucydides to describe, in Book 1, Sections 89 to 117 (1. https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Pentecontaetia/ #History #Athens #ThePentecontaetia #Thucydides

The Pentecontaetia (Pentekontætia, πεντηκονταετία) or “the account of the fifty years” is a term first used by Thucydides to describe, in Book 1, Sections 89 to 117 (1. https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Pentecontaetia/ #History #Athens #ThePentecontaetia #Thucydides

I know that freedom’s value in Roman #republicanism derives from the fact that #romansitesaturday defined #liberty in opposition to the state of being enslaved. But it’s never been so clear as when reading Pericles’s funeral speech in #Thucydides: “realise that happiness lies in liberty, and liberty in valor, and do not hold back from the dangers of war”, cause if the war is lost, you all become slaves in Sparta! Conversely, this is shaking somewhat my adherence to republicanism, or to the idea, that, as Dennett said, freedom is an offer we can’t refuse.

The secret of happiness is #freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage
#Thucydides