thucydidean造句

• There are no Thucydidean depictions, no gripping battlefield descriptions here, since Kagan's focus is not war itself but what happens to bring it about.
• If, instead of a history, Thucydides had written an analytical treatise on politics, with particular reference to the Athenian empire, it is probable that . . . he could have forestalled Machiavelli . . . . [ since ] the whole innuendo of the Thucydidean treatment of history agrees with the fundamental postulate of Machiavelli, the supremacy of reason of state.
• It comes after rivers of Thucydidean Greek, printed in the beautiful type font known as " Small Pica Porson, " after Richard Porson ( 1759-1808 ), the great Greek scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, who had such a handsome hand in Greek that it was said of him : " The very dust of his writings was gold ."
• As Jennifer R . Mercieca and James Arnt Aune noted in their article " A Vernacular Republican Rhetoric : William Manning's Key of Libberty, " historian Thomas Gustafson would refer to Jay's Treaty as one of the great controversies of the 1790s and as part of a " Thucydidean moment, " a point " where a republic confronts the reality that political and linguistic disorders are one in the same . " This was Manning's reality.