11-23-2003, 05:50 PM
Quote:</em></strong><hr>Hellenes supporting Persian king of the kings. Are they traitors or adherents of the Universal Empire?<hr><br>
Are you talking about the period of the Persian Wars, or during the invasion by Alexander, or somewhere in between? I think there were a number of reasons at different times. The Thebans and others "medized" to prevent their own annihilation (cf. Eretria's fate in 490). The hoplites in the pay of Persia who faced Alexander's army at Granicus and Issus were mercenaries, but some of them may have been inclined to oppose Alexander for enslaving Hellas. At that point there was no real freedom for Greece either way.<br>
Quote:</em></strong><hr>The regime was rather tolerant. <hr><br>
There was <em>religious</em> tolerance, but the taxation was a constant, tying up capital and stultifying progress, and <em>everyone</em> was the slave of the Great King and lived or died at his whim.<br>
Quote:</em></strong><hr>I am not sure that after Persian wars Greeks in the Persian Empire (mostly in Asia Minor) lived worse than those in Greece. Asia Minor prospered in the united state, but Greece was tore apart by internal wars. <hr><br>
Actually the Athenians won independence for them in the mid-5th Century. The Spartans (the self-styled champions of Greek freedom) sold them out to the Persians near the end of the century in return for the money to build the fleets needed to defeat the Athenians and end the Peloponnesian War.<br>
Quote:</em></strong><hr>Can you imagine Persians treating Greeks as Spartans treated their helots?<hr><br>
Easily.<br>
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Are you talking about the period of the Persian Wars, or during the invasion by Alexander, or somewhere in between? I think there were a number of reasons at different times. The Thebans and others "medized" to prevent their own annihilation (cf. Eretria's fate in 490). The hoplites in the pay of Persia who faced Alexander's army at Granicus and Issus were mercenaries, but some of them may have been inclined to oppose Alexander for enslaving Hellas. At that point there was no real freedom for Greece either way.<br>
Quote:</em></strong><hr>The regime was rather tolerant. <hr><br>
There was <em>religious</em> tolerance, but the taxation was a constant, tying up capital and stultifying progress, and <em>everyone</em> was the slave of the Great King and lived or died at his whim.<br>
Quote:</em></strong><hr>I am not sure that after Persian wars Greeks in the Persian Empire (mostly in Asia Minor) lived worse than those in Greece. Asia Minor prospered in the united state, but Greece was tore apart by internal wars. <hr><br>
Actually the Athenians won independence for them in the mid-5th Century. The Spartans (the self-styled champions of Greek freedom) sold them out to the Persians near the end of the century in return for the money to build the fleets needed to defeat the Athenians and end the Peloponnesian War.<br>
Quote:</em></strong><hr>Can you imagine Persians treating Greeks as Spartans treated their helots?<hr><br>
Easily.<br>
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