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.
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.
ReplyDelete