Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Cyrus, Croesus, and Empires

 The piece at American Conservative is well worth the (short) read.

Here's the tease:

"If you cross the Halys River and attack the Persians, you will destroy a great empire.” According to Herodotus, when Lydia’s King Croesus asked the Oracle at Delphi whether to make war...

A few of you (Grim) know how that worked out.

But keep reading the AC piece.  The last graphs are a genuine "Rest of the Story" moment. 

1 comment:

Grim said...

Herodotus is wonderful reading. Many of the stories are obvious legends, and some of the stories not so obvious where the truth ends and fiction begins.