Click Here to Read:  Herodotus on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  The History of Herodotus By Herodotus

Click Here to Read: Arms and the Man: What was Herodotus trying to tell us? By Daniel Mendelsohn in The New Yorker in April 28, 2008 Issue.

Click Here to Read: On the Road With History’s Father By Tom Bissell in The New York Times on June 10, 2007.

Click Here to Read:   The rest is history: With his reputation for romanticism and rambling and his love of gossip, Herodotus was dismissed by the serious thinkers of his day. Yet his work is both entertaining and deeply moral, argues Charlotte Higgins on the Guardian website on January 2, 2009. Continue reading Historian Tuesday: Herodotus

Click Here to Read: She Was the Only Woman in a Photo of 38 Scientists, and Now She’s Been Identified By Jacey Fortin in The New York Times on March 19, 2018.

Sheila Minor Huff, center left and partly obscured, was just beginning her career when she was photographed at the International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Public Domain via NOAA

Click Here to Read: Samuel Pallache: The Great Jewish Pirate Who Took on the Spanish Fleet on the Mosaic website on March 18, 2018.

“Man in Oriental Costume” by Rembrandt ca. 1633-1634, thought to be Samuel Pallache

Click Here to Read: Making Thucydides relevant again: America’s self-destructive showdown with China By Clay Chandler on the Fortune website on March 17, 2018.

Original bust is a Roman copy (c. 100 CE) of an early 4th Century BCE Greek original, and is located in Holkham Hall in Norfolk, UK. 2008 Photo: shakko

Click Here to Read: 50 Years After My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, Revisiting the Slaughter the US Military Tried to Hide By Amy Goodman on the Democracy Now! website on March 16, 2018.

Photo by Ronald L. Haeberle. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Click Here to Read:  Thucydides on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  History: The Trump team is obsessing over Thucydides, the ancient historian who wrote a seminal tract on war By Michael Crowley on the Politico website on June 21, 2017/

Click Here to Read:  The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War? In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed by Graham Allison on September 24, 2015.

Click Here to Read:   The Risks and Rewards of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War by S.M. Jaffe on the War on the Rocks website on July 6, 2017

Click Here to Read:   Thucydides and the Tragedy of Athens: A Parable for America by John H. Maurer on the Foreign Policy Research website on June 26, 2017.
This is the plaster cast bust currently in exposition of Zurab Tsereteli’s gallery in Moscow (part of Russian Academy of Arts), formerly from the collection of castings of Pushkin museum made in early 1900-1910s.

Original bust is a Roman copy (c. 100 CE) of an early 4th Century BCE Greek original, and is located in Holkham Hall in Norfolk, UK. 2008 Photo: shakko

Continue reading Historian Tuesday: Thucydides

Click Here to Read:  The Many Lives of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Born obscurely in turbulent times, the notorious text describing a Jewish conspiracy to enslave humanity lives on even today. Why? Walter Laquer on the Mosaic website on December 4 2017.