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Jiang reads the Melian Dialogue as Athens abandoning liberty rhetoric for pure imperial might: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Might Makes Right
Jiang reads the Melian Dialogue as Athens abandoning liberty rhetoric for pure imperial might: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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"Lacedonians although they are colonists or that you have done us no wrong will aim at what is feasible holding in view that holding..."
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"...others want liberty too bad because the Athenians are stronger might makes right okay alright um so this war will drag on and because..."
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"So might makes right. So in many ways, evolution is a rejection of Christianity. So you would think that Christians would oppose Darwinism and..."
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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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