re: #342 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Actually, the Athenians were worse bullies to all their league’s “voluntary” members. The Spartans maintained a nasty police state, but they didn’t try to spread their ways around the rest of Greece — that’s why they found so many allies among the other city-states.

I was on a train returning to Athens after touring the Peloponnese (including Sparta, of course.) I had a tiny conversation with a gentleman who spoke a little English, and told him we had been touring the ancient cities and studying the history of Greece. He said something to the effect of, ‘Ah, the days of glory. All we do now is fight each other.’

It was the most amusing thing I heard on that trip.