11-30-2006, 10:29 AM
By the same logic the parthians never defeated the romans and neither did the sassanians! Poor Shapor I! He made all that havoc in the roman east and by the same logic we saying he never defeated the romans!
How about denying Alexander the Great his greatness. Persia's armies were easy to defeat! They were not as compact and motivated as the macedonian one. The real enemy was distance, weather and unpredictables, certainly not the persian armies! Almost a piece of cake!
The same arguements that are made to deny Trajan glory could be used to deny Shapor's victories. The roman were over-strectched hence easy to beat. The roman emperors were weak due to risks of coups hence easy to beat. The romans were thin in defending the easter provinces hence east to beat. Bla bla bla. Shapor was fantastic and beat = defeated the romans bad. Trajan did a good job too as did other roman emperors and generals. And Alexander was the best of them all.
I think this watering down of concepts and words that originally had obvious and down to earth meanings to the absurd point of making them useless is sterile (= useless).
How about denying Alexander the Great his greatness. Persia's armies were easy to defeat! They were not as compact and motivated as the macedonian one. The real enemy was distance, weather and unpredictables, certainly not the persian armies! Almost a piece of cake!
The same arguements that are made to deny Trajan glory could be used to deny Shapor's victories. The roman were over-strectched hence easy to beat. The roman emperors were weak due to risks of coups hence easy to beat. The romans were thin in defending the easter provinces hence east to beat. Bla bla bla. Shapor was fantastic and beat = defeated the romans bad. Trajan did a good job too as did other roman emperors and generals. And Alexander was the best of them all.
I think this watering down of concepts and words that originally had obvious and down to earth meanings to the absurd point of making them useless is sterile (= useless).
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
