I love this description: Sardis (city of Gyges and Crœsus) was under Persian rule “until the great Hellenistic freedom fighter, Alexander the Great, romped into Sardis.”
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
Wasn’t his body count comparable to Hitler’s?
It must have been ghostwritten by one of those neocons who cheer on the Athenians at Melos.
I honestly can’t tell whether the passage is tongue in cheek or serious.
Wouldn’t neocons support invading Melos to bring “true democracy” to it?