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Tango01 | 02 Jul 2020 9:30 p.m. PST |
… be as elusive then, as it is today. "For many with a general interest in Classics, tales of war are central to their engagement with ancient Greece and Rome. From the sack of Troy to the fall of the ‘Eternal city' itself, conflict and combat dominate the ancient past. But take a closer look and you will see that, while the ancients did accept war as a necessary part of life, they knew it too well to idealise it; marked by real experience, the Greeks and Romans were keenly aware of the virtues and value of peace. As Herodotus, the father of history, noted: "No one is so foolish as to choose war over peace. In peace sons bury their fathers, in war fathers bury their sons." Traditionally, that counter commitment to the resolution and avoidance of conflict has been poorly considered by historians. Certainly in Classics, the study of peace has only recently started to gain ground, with a flurry of new work on ‘ancient peace' in the last decade or so. But even those studies have tended to be too particular in their focus on key sites and/or eras. All of which led to a new initiative by members of the Department of Ancient Classics at Maynooth University, to explore the importance of peace in its own right, across antiquity…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Damion | 08 Jul 2020 2:38 p.m. PST |
It's impossible to gauge how serious either civilisation was about peace without having any input from the people they conquered. I doubt the original inhabitants of Bourges felt gratitude at being wiped out by the Romans who behaved more like the Mongols at times. |
Tango01 | 20 Jul 2020 10:25 p.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement Armand |
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