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From: "Vern Humphrey"
Reply-To: r_catholic-l{at}yahoogroups.com
To: seanmbrook{at}aol.com [mailto:seanmbrook{at}aol.com]
> >
> True! One thinks esp. of the ferocious Assyrians.
> Their cruelty made them among the most hated of
> the ancient nations. They had a nasty habit of
> IMPALING, not merely humbling defeated kings.
On the other hand, haemrrhoids were virtually unknown among royalty in
those days. :-)
>
> But, among the ancient conquerors, the Achaemenian
> Persians amazed their contemporaries because of
> the magnanimity and generosity they showed to their
> defeated enemies Cyrus the Great, Darius I, and
> Xerxes I comes esp. to mind.
Yep -- it was Cyrus who allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem.
>
> Even the Greeks couldn't help showing admiration for
> the Persians. Recall the story in Herodotus where
> the Spartans treacherously murdered the Persian
> envoys who demanded their submission at the time
> of the Perso-Greek war. The Spartans soon regretted
> this violation of the law of nations and sent a delegation
> to Xerxes offering their lives to atone for the crime. The
> King refused to kill them, instead treating them royally
> and sending them home unharmed.
>
The Persian concept of honor was FAR ahead of the Greeks, who were
routinely treacherous to each other, and would turn on their own countrymen
in a heartbeat.
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