11-14-2009, 03:27 AM
As I said in my previous post, it is as plain as a pike-staff that he had not travelled to Plataea. If he had, he would surely have learned something other than the "Athenian version" of events...in fact he could hardly avoid doing so.His absence of any description of the tombs, or even the place generally speaks eloquently too, for normally he gives us detail about the places he has actually visited.
"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
