Thucydides Roundtable, Addendum: Steve Bannon’s interest in the Peloponnesian War
See also: Titus in Space (Paris Review, November 2016)
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See also: Titus in Space (Paris Review, November 2016)
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Lexington Green:
February 1st, 2017 at 3:05 am
“It is always high noon at the OK Corral.”
He’s right. It is.
Cheryl Rofer:
February 1st, 2017 at 4:35 pm
Yes, Charles, I would very much like to see a post about the battlefield at Kurukshetra.
Rodney Brown:
February 1st, 2017 at 9:59 pm
Why does Mr. Bannon talk about Sparta as the tiny upstart, when the classic version of the Thucydides Trap says that the established Spartans were worried about the growing power of Athens. In reality, neither of them was the small, scrappy upstart. But Sparta really wasn’t. If he’s read so much about the Peloponnesian War, why does he identify small Breitbart with Sparta and large Fox with Athens? What am I missing?
Grurray:
February 2nd, 2017 at 4:11 pm
The Spartans always seemed to be on the march, while Athens could fall back behind its great walls and depend on its stores of wealth and organizational innovations. That is, until Sicily.
Maybe that’s what he was thinking. That Athens most resembled the so-called Cathedral
http://tinyurl.com/oblap86
It was also a recurring theme that the Spartans regarded themselves as liberators. Despite their autocratic militaristic nature they won many allies by promising them independence from Athenian suzerainty.