08-07-2007, 02:38 AM
You may be right militarily, Paul...another of history's "what ifs" which can be endlessly debated ( and fruitlessly, I might add !!).
But doesn't the fact that Agesilaus fellow Hellenes would happily take Persian gold rather than support him say something?( about a lack of 'Pan Hellenism') And that something is that the "Greece" of his day could not successfully take on the might of Persia - they had only to buy off one of their annoying border-barbarians, doubtless at the same time as they were doing the same thing with Thracians, Scythians or whoever. " Greece" ( which did not even exist) was never a threat to The Great King.
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Even Alexander's later success may be regarded as a historical freak, where many factors all happened to co-incide. :lol: :lol:
But doesn't the fact that Agesilaus fellow Hellenes would happily take Persian gold rather than support him say something?( about a lack of 'Pan Hellenism') And that something is that the "Greece" of his day could not successfully take on the might of Persia - they had only to buy off one of their annoying border-barbarians, doubtless at the same time as they were doing the same thing with Thracians, Scythians or whoever. " Greece" ( which did not even exist) was never a threat to The Great King.
) Even Alexander's later success may be regarded as a historical freak, where many factors all happened to co-incide. :lol: :lol:
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
