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:
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.
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