06-28-2008, 03:00 PM
Quote:In January 2006 in a recent DNA study on fossilised dental pulp from an ancient Plague burial pit, the University of Athens, found DNA sequences similar to Salmonella Enterica, the bacteria that causes Typhoid fever.Their methodology has since been heavily criticised
I have the paper and some of the critics as well if anyone wants it.
The debacle at Sphacteria showed two interesting things about Sparta to her allies. A) She could be defeated and her hoplites surrender. This was not Leuktra, especially since the spartans were beaten by "spindles" which probably served to disgrace their attackers almost as much as them, but the possibility of a non-spartan dominated peloponnesse suddenly became imaginable. B) Sparta clearly showed one weakness of joining into a coalition with a small, insular group of elites: they value the lives of their own far above that of all the rest of the allies put together, or even the war aims.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
