Spring always reminds me that it’s almost summer and summer reminds me that I should be getting into some sort of acceptable shape for the hiking, swimming, and suitcase hauling that lie ahead.
I was raised an athlete and ran sprints for as long as my crooked feet would carry me. I continued to work out [...]
Emboldened by their new prosperity, prestige, and power, Pericles and the Athenians began to pursue empire. Despite their protestations to the contrary, they began to treat their allies as their subjects. Ideologically committed to their own form of radical democracy, they saw it as their mission and their right to foster, or if necessary to [...]
I’ve been here before.
About eight years ago, I was on my way from Delphi to Ancient Olympia and had to change buses in Sparta. I’d read that New Sparta wasn’t much to look at and this is quite true–its a dirty, concrete block, grid-city with insufferable traffic and too many stores selling cheap goods.
Modern Spartans [...]
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