Our Historian Thucydides
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler
4.9 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson talk with Sami Winc about Thucydides and moments in his History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles' funeral oration, the revolt of Mitylene, civil war at Corcira, and the Melian Dialogue.
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