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The Heroic Years (R&P.S)

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An R&P.S for all the enlisted members of Epyllion!

The Heroic Years is an R&P.S which concern the years of the Persian War, which is well known as the Mhdika. That war was not a collision of two different nations. It was a collision of two different worlds: the Greek and the African-Asiatic. Men and women lived their time of worry and fear! Do you want to be one of them?

Let have few words about it:

“The story of the genesis of the Athenian Golden Age begins chronologically with the history of the wars between a coalition of Greek states and the Persian Kingdom that erupted just after 500 B.C. and continued intermittently for decades. The Persian Kingdom outstripped mainland Greece in every imaginable category of material resources, from precious metals to beasts of burden. But, above all, it had a preponderance of the ancient world's most precious resource, human beings. No resource was harder to replace than people because the populations of antiquity were constantly at risk from disease and regional scarcities of food to a degree unknown in the modern Western world. Death was not a phenomenon expected under ordinary conditions to afflict only the old, as today; illness, injury, and malnutrition could and did carry off people at every age all the time. The imbalance in demographic resources made the wars between Persians and Greeks seemingly into a contest between an elephant and a mouse. No one could have reasonably expected the mouse to prevail. The unexpectedness of the result--a Greek victory--contributed mightily to the feeling of self-confidence that characterized the Athenian Golden Age, for good and for ill.”

Text from Perseus

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* Nikolaos Cleomenes, Jul 24, 2003 - 03:45