/lit/ - Literature

>>10341900

The civic cult was only the foundation of social and cultural life. Meme socratic all you like, but premodern Greece never experienced a better social organization. His moral teachings are reflected all too well by the traitorous conduct of his favorite pupil Alcibiades. The works Plato associates with Socrates were plagiarized from the Pythagoreans, whose leader Archytas rescued Plato from the dungeons of Syracuse. Archytas was the true philosopher general, undefeated in battle, a leader of men by both word and deed, the literal embodiment of areté.

>>9665999

Sybaris was a city famed for its wealth and culture. But when a tyrant (Telys) arose, he incurred the wrath of neighboring cities by disrespecting supplicants at Apollo's altar, thus Sybaris was destroyed and the inhabitants sold into slavery.

The tyrant viewed the political fugitives as personal threats to himself, so much so that he jeopardized the state to protect his own interests, and in so doing provoked a war that would destroy the state. A tyrant always puts his own interests first, that is the difference between a classical tyrant and a Princeps on the Augustan model. We have to be realistic here, basically no politician is trustworthy enough to choose the latter. Look at our President, he is destroying our alliances, inching closer to war on all fronts, and we have to remember that what he does are no longer the antics of forced celebrity, but a reflection of our people in the eyes of the world.

>>9585893

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