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21 Jul 2024 16 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked
With the death of the veteran and historian Thucydides around 400 BC, the narrative of the Peloponnesian War now, in 410 BC, flips primarily over to Xenophon, a renowned commander of his own time. With Athens striking back hard against Sparta at sea,...
18 Jul 2024 17 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Sparta and Persia, once the most bitter of rivals at battles like Thermopylae and Plataea, had now forged an alliance against Athens. Coupled with Alcibiades's defection, a recent defeat at Syme and revolts across the Delian League, many Athenians be...
14 Jul 2024 24 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
In the late summer of 413, the once seemingly invincible state of Athens, at the head of its Delian League, now saw its complete destruction on the horizon. Constant raids against their homeland, the deadliest plague in memory at the time, great defe...
12 Jul 2024 13 minute read 5 comments lukejoseph1102
It is that time again of the year, where everyone argues back and forth about where the price of Bitcoin will be at the end of the year. 100,000? 40,000? To be honest, it is getting tiring at this point for me to keep tabs on the amount of articles...
10 Jul 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I've got a flower up mysleeve,hidden like a facecard It is blooming up into my hands; Pink and yellow petals assume the fragrant formof a crude, offensivegesture And a grin of unrepentant malicespreads like a soft, rude flower,orthe bird across my fa...
7 Jul 2024 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
While doubling up on the paychecks was great, Jeremy is relieved that it’s finally over, and he can remain at this retreat full-time. Though he and the others failed to locate any trace of that tall, possibly glowing man, they remained up well...
30 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium
There is always this assurance that God can always do what He has done again. It wasn't a fluke, it is just who He is... It increases our faith to know that we have seen and heard God do certain things to know He can do it again because He is the s...
29 Jun 2024 14 minute read 2 comments lukejoseph1102
Oh here we go again. I bet that you as my reader have ever heard the phrase "More is better" before. I am also willing to bet (although I hate betting) that most people, think that its always good to have more. That depends really. Having more sickne...
28 Jun 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Olawalium
We are not serious as a nation. Nigeria has become a joke to other nations. That's not surprising because we have become a joke to ourselves. We fight over needless issues while leaving the important issues unattended to. You would expect some leve...
28 Jun 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgmentye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again."Matthew 7:1-2 When I was a practicing idiot in L.A., I used to know some shady people. I was...
