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And, just as the intellectually undistinguished George W. doubtless got into Yale as a "legacy," JQA, though he had mastered Thucydides, surely wasn't penalized for his father's name when he was admitted to Harvard.
Lately, an old word has resurfaced: The United States stands accused of hegemonism . Didn't this musty term figure in Thucydides' description of how Sparta feared the rising power of Athens?
Adams set a rigorous course of study for young John, assigning him, for example, to read Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War in the original Greek, at age 10.
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War