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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
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.