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.”
By Roderick
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.”
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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.
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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?