Foreign Affairs(@ForeignAffairs):“The central tragedy of ‘The Peloponnesian War’ is the story of growing Athenian arrogance and hubris and its fateful consequences,” writes Jonathan Kirshner. “Modern-day Athenians, trumpeting the virtue of strength, would do well to heed Thucydides’s warnings.”

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“The central tragedy of ‘The Peloponnesian War’ is the story of growing Athenian arrogance and hubris and its fateful consequences,” writes Jonathan Kirshner. “Modern-day Athenians, trumpeting the virtue of strength, would do well to heed Thucydides’s warnings.”