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Was Ancient Greece A Model For U.S.' New Role In World?(A)(NATIONAL ISSUE)
Byline: BRIAN MITCHELL
Students at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., started studying Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War in the 1970s.
"It was right after the Vietnam War, and the sores were very visible and very raw, and so there was no real possibility of discussing Vietnam in a systematic and rational way," said Mackubin Owens, associate dean and professor at the college.
The war between Athens and Sparta (431-404 B.C.) was easier to talk about, even if the intended parallels were plain: Athens was America. Its rivalry with Sparta was the Cold War. Its disastrous invasion of Sicily was Vietnam.
Today many Europeans are drawing the parallels a little differently: Athens is America. Its rivalry with Sparta is the war on terror. Its disastrous invasion of Sicily is the planned invasion of Iraq.
Europe itself is the rest of Greece. It's less bothered by an old foe in the East than by a domineering neighbor and former friend.
"What we're seeing in Europe right now is exactly paralleled in Thucydides," said Christian Kopff, professor of classics at the University of Colorado.
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