First you were at school with Milo Yiannopoulos, then at college with Sian Berry? D'you suppose it was exposure to proto-Trumpists and eco-warriors in your youth that set you firmly down the path of … (View Post)

Relatively speaking, yes, but they weren't about to tolerate a democratic Athens under their control, or indeed any Athens at all - the Persian army thoroughly sacked the city in 480-479, so its pros… (View Post)

It does - amongst morons. (View Post)

Essentially that Marathon (and Salamis a decade later) were pivotal battles in world history that determined the independent survival of the Greek city-states and more generally dissuaded the Persian… (View Post)

Arrowheads form a nice thematic thread though this topic, since, according to Herodotus, the Scythian king Ariantas had each of his nomadic subjects contribute an arrowhead to his census - on pain on… (View Post)