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How to Tell a Barbarian, Part III
Posted By in UncategorizedWhen he was celebrating in dramatic poetry the great Greek victory over Xerxes, Aeschylus understood the meaning of Salamis as the victory of free men over what the Greeks saw as the lashed and herded slaves and mercenaries serving in the war of a despot. The Persians soars high above petty localism and patriotic bluster, though, not least because we see not the battle but the Persians themselves in their opulent court, hearing piece by piece the terrible news, until Xerxes himself comes
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