https://www.isegoria.net/2014/04/family-murders-in-the-persian-ruling-class/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:40:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2014/04/family-murders-in-the-persian-ruling-class/comment-page-1/#comment-1195467 Rollory Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:46:51 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=34611#comment-1195467 Anybody who has not read “Anabasis” should do so. It’s on Gutenberg. The moment where he’s describing himself lying there in the dark, utterly despairing, and then suddenly thinks: “What am I doing here? Why am I waiting? This isn’t helping” and then starts rallying everyone in camp is one of those moments that makes you realize, yes, they really were people just exactly like us, and human nature hasn’t changed. It’s one of the most purely heroic moments in literature, for all that the only thing he overcame was despair.

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