Greek self-understanding as loyalty to gods, city, liberty, and right conduct against imperial power.
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borderland virtue
Greek self-understanding as loyalty to gods, city, liberty, and right conduct against imperial power.
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"So these two passages show you the difference between empire and the borderlands right? The empire is about mass organization death. The borderlands the..."
"Pausanias answered I admired your good intentions and your foresight but you have failed to form a right judgment for having highly extolled me..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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