Some of the greatest changes in history have been the consequence of the fact that people do not live very long. Alexander would never have been in so much of a hurry if he had had a couple of hundred years to live. Napoleon wouldn’t have chaffed at the bit to conquer Europe if he…
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Brasidas
In the great days of the war between Athens and Sparta purposely precipitated by the Athenians who like all the Greeks were under the military thumb of the Spartans, it was generally agreed (and still is by scholars of the time) that the Athenians had the upper hand when it came to oratory. In fact…