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Jiang says Xerxes could have won by avoiding naval confrontation and exploiting Sparta’s Helot weakness, but imperial arrogance made him seek Salamis.
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Imperial Arrogance
Jiang says Xerxes could have won by avoiding naval confrontation and exploiting Sparta’s Helot weakness, but imperial arrogance made him seek Salamis.
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"So all they do is lend in Sparta and the helots will rise up and the war is over. Game over. Okay? The problem..."
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"You've conquered all of Greece. Okay? Do not risk your navy in a military confrontation. So of course the Persians decide we're going to..."
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"Okay? So he writes about the Battle of uh uh Thermopylae. Okay? And again at this point in his history the war is over...."
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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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