re: #386 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Thucydides doesn’t write about the Persian wars, he’s talking about the Athenian League vs. Sparta and its allies.

Yeah, the two paragraphs are doing two different things.

First: people read Thucydides and don’t get it because they’re used to a narrative framework in which Greece is the protagonist.

Second: that narrative framework is the black-and-white image of Greece versus Persia, which is much more appetizing and thus what prevails.