10-16-2011, 10:39 PM
Quote:Is that a serious opinion?
I'm not sure whether it was designed specifically at the Persians originally. But the Persians were the second nearest major group of non-Greeks to what is now modern Greece (after Illyrians, Thracians, and possibly Macedonians if you really want to stir up a storm in the modern political climate!), and to the Greeks of Asia Minor, the Persians and their vassals/conquered people were the closest group of non-Greeks. Considering it's people like Herodotus of Halicarnassos (in Asia Minor) who begin writing History, I'd say answer the above question with a clear "yes".
By the way, does anyone know where the explanation that "barbaroi" means "non-Greek-speakers whose language sounds like "bar-bar-bar" mumblings" comes from?
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Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur
- Q. Ennius, Annales, Frag. XXXI, 493
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Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur
- Q. Ennius, Annales, Frag. XXXI, 493
Secretary of the Ricciacus Frënn (http://www.ricciacus.lu/)