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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War, Book Eight

  • The Agora Foundation 1129 Maricopa Highway Ojai, CA, 93023 United States (map)

Is there an art to writing and reading history? Is a detached view of historical events desirable, or even possible? What does a conflict in the ancient Peloponnese (431-404 BC) have to teach us about history in an era of “fake news”? Thucydides has been called the “father of scientific history" for his strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the deities. Please register in advance to join tutor David Appleby for this live conversation on an ancient subject of immediate concern today. NOTE: Times given in PST.

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