Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Plutarch
This is my entire discussion of the opening to Thucydides's Peloponnesian War for the Technology & Nihilism series on my website (AthensCorner.com). In this recording I read in its entirety, and discuss in very meticulous detail, the first twenty-two paragraphs of Thucydides's Peloponnesian War (commonly referred to as "the Archaeology" of the text). At issue is just how much we as default postmoderns still have so very much to learn from what Thucydides has to teach us, parti...