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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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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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