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1/4 A thread on the real #ThucydidesTraps (there is more than one). No, it's not the banality that rising and established powers can clash, actually.
Instead: 1) Read T actually and you see that he treats both his own side and the enemy with critical empathy, not sympathy...
Instead: 1) Read T actually and you see that he treats both his own side and the enemy with critical empathy, not sympathy...
2/4 ...but critical empathy. Specifically, his Athenians can be cruel and idiotic, his Spartans rational and driven by understandable motives. If you need caricatures instead, T would have scoffed at you. Trap I. 2) His Pelop. War is a giant clusterf***, an enormous...
3/4 ...waste, a descent into barbarity and slaughter on all sides. If you need a simpler, more edifying picture, again T would have considered you at best infantile. Trap II .3) His Pelop. War is also a story of self-humiliation: Here are the same Greeks who defeated the...
