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Topic	I've been learning about the early days of Greece.
HannibalBarca3 01/04/21 9:56:01 PM #11:	ImAMarvel posted... >tfw as a kid, always thought the Greek city-states were the shining example of early democracy >turns out they were all a bunch of assholes who hated and warred with each other >Athens was a misogynistic society who bullied lesser citystates into doing their bidding >Sparta was a militaristic dictatorship who not only kept an entire ethnicity in slavery but treated them rather brutally >Sparta didn't even have that good of a military and would win wars frequently by just getting others to fight for them or bribing other political powers Don't forget Athen's destruction of Melos in which they invaded a neutral state and voted to destroy their community by killing all the adult men, and selling the women and children into slavery while settling 500 Athenian men at Melos. That kind of act of destruction wasn't unusual, there are other attested acts of this and the Spartans did the same to the people of Plataea, but what, at least Thucydides, objected was attacking a neutral state. --- Aut viam inveniam aut faciam. Will not change sig until the Tsar is put back in the Russian throne (July 08, 2010) <cite>HannibalBarca3 posted [p:949111924] in I've been ... [t:79215657]...</cite> <quote>ImAMarvel posted... </cite> <quote>>tfw as a kid, always thought the Greek city-states were the shining example of early democracy >turns out they were all a bunch of assholes who hated and warred with each other >Athens was a misogynistic society who bullied lesser citystates into doing their bidding >Sparta was a militaristic dictatorship who not only kept an entire ethnicity in slavery but treated them rather brutally >Sparta didn't even have that good of a military and would win wars frequently by just getting others to fight for them or bribing other political powers</quote>Don't forget Athen's destruction of Melos in which they invaded a neutral state and voted to destroy their community by killing all the adult men, and selling the women and children into slavery while settling 500 Athenian men at Melos. That kind of act of destruction wasn't unusual, there are other attested acts of this and the Spartans did the same to the people of Plataea, but what, at least Thucydides, objected was attacking a neutral state. --- Aut viam inveniam aut faciam. Will not change sig until the Tsar is put back in the Russian throne (July 08, 2010)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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