At the same time, they wish to present a set of lessons that will be useful for readers who may want to consult Thucydides when dealing with national security issues. The authors strive to demonstrate that Thucydides’ text is not a machine into which modern problems can be plugged in and answers calculated. Novo and Jay Parker’s Restoring Thucydides, which aims to “push back against the oversimplification and decontextualization of Thucydides,” in print media and scholarship to help scholars and policy makers understand the complexities of Thucydides’ text. Thucydides’ work is complex, difficult (in both the original Greek and English translations), and, as a result, open to diverse interpretations. I own several editions of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, including a well-used copy of Rex Warner’s Penguin translation I have read and reread since graduate school.
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