Thucydides and the history of ideas: viewing Thucydides' Peloponnesian War anew : questions of qualitative understanding and insightfulness

Idealism, realism and history - Thucydides a complex amalgam of these notions and more. Thucydides' Peloponnesian War stands as a classical testament (an oftentimes argumentative testament) to the singular and general importance of the roles of perception, insight, and thoughtfulness as markstones of a true historian's craft - ancient modern and contemporary.