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Athens survives the burning of the city by treating the polis as the people rather than the physical place.
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Persian Wars
Athens survives the burning of the city by treating the polis as the people rather than the physical place.
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Jiang says Greek victory still carried an ethic of virtue, faith, loyalty to gods, and refusal to behave like barbarians.
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"So avoid head -on collisions with the Greeks. Okay? All right. So this will lead to a series of wars between Persia and Greece...."
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"Okay? And that this is considered a major insult to the Greeks. Then what they will do is they will go to Athens which..."
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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..."
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"so what will happen is that now that Xerxes is gone now that the navy is scattered Mardonius is kinda screwed okay? And so..."
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"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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