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Date Posted: 10:58:56 03/16/08 Sun
Author: Jonathan Dunn
Subject: Re: Mimesis in the Ancient World
In reply to: Shannon 's message, "Mimesis in the Ancient World" on 13:43:38 03/13/08 Thu

The Athenians who deserted to the Persian side fought for their own advancement from the beginning, I would argue. It isn't that these men valiantly fought to keep Greek from the despots, but that democracy was system under which they lived and thus it was the system by which they sought power. Not as an ideal, but as the only practical way. Thus, when presented with a way to power and wealth under a different system they gladly took that way. I think the invasion of Sicily shows rather clearly that these powerful men were less interested in democracy as an ideal institution than in democracy as a system within which to take power.

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