Originally posted by Agamoi Thytai
Isocrates would also have prefered to die a thousand times than seeing the humiliation his defeated ancestors suffered 80 years ago at the hands of the victorious Peloponnesians who demolished the Athenian walls under the music of flutes and claiming "this day was the begining of Greek freedom"
What did really the Macedonian kings represented?Polybius described it perfectly in his Histories,and he was certainly not naive
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