Thucydides' Melian Dialogue: "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"

Send us Fan Mail Caveat auditor!. Listener beware! This episode is NOT about the Middle Ages, although it does touch upon medieval massacres toward the end. Rather, it focuses on a text I taught for years at the U.S. Naval Academy, the “Melian dialogue” in Thucydides’ "History of the Peloponnesian War". If you are not interested in Classical Greek warfare, Thucydides, or political theory, you may want to give this a pass. Otherwise, please join Ellen and me as we explore one of th...