tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355904823307221057.post1703652997622140746..comments2009-08-19T20:34:35.451-07:00Comments on ILC Yalies: Short Update: The Peloponnesian WarYohanna Pepahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06620641205664848963noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355904823307221057.post-89203514061171640232009-07-10T09:40:39.649-07:002009-07-10T09:40:39.649-07:00Stephanie,
One of the best parts of being associa...Stephanie,<br /><br />One of the best parts of being associated with this program is that I can learn about so many subjects without having to actually do the reading. ☺<br /><br />We’ve all heard stories about the Athenians and the Spartans from the time we were children. Stories about the great Spartan warrior culture, Helen of Troy and the Trojan Horse, the philosophical Athenians…But now I’m learning things I didn’t know about.<br /><br />I had never heard that the Spartans were averse to war. As a matter of fact, that’s the farthest from what I would have expected.<br /><br />What really perplexes and even bothers me is that just a few short years after all of Greece fights the mighty Persian Empire under Xerxes to prevent being taken over and ruled by a foreign power, you tell me that the Athenians forge an alliance with the Persians to battle the Spartans.<br /><br />I can easily see, now, about this lack of loyalty that you wrote about earlier.Don Gosneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com