{"id":99405,"date":"2025-02-20T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=99405"},"modified":"2025-02-20T21:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:20:43","slug":"opinion-stefan-dolgert-discusses-links-between-ancient-history-and-u-s-canada-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/02\/opinion-stefan-dolgert-discusses-links-between-ancient-history-and-u-s-canada-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Stefan Dolgert discusses links between ancient history and U.S.-Canada relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Political Science Stefan Dolgert wrote a piece recently published in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/opinion\/columnists\/canadian-loyalty-canadian-tragedy-parallels-of-ancient-greek-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calgary Herald<\/a><\/em> about parallels between Canada-U.S. relations and the destruction of the ancient city-state of Plataea.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Listening to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s speech last weekend, one word kept running through my head: Plataea. If you\u2019re not familiar with Thucydides\u2019\u00a0History of the Peloponnesian War\u00a0(431-404 BCE) you may not know about this ancient city-state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Spoiler alert: it\u2019s not a happy parallel between Canada and a place you probably haven\u2019t heard of.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/opinion\/columnists\/canadian-loyalty-canadian-tragedy-parallels-of-ancient-greek-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Calgary Herald<\/em>\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Political Science Stefan Dolgert recently published a piece in the Calgary Herald about parallels between Canada-U.S. relations and an ancient Greek war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[14230,4104,522,42,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99414,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99405\/revisions\/99414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}