Professor Edmund Richardson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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Oh, the classics, right?
But what you're rarely able to do is actually take...
a city, a well-fortified, strong city by force.
When people read Homer, when people read the Iliad, they're like, wait, wait, wait, they besieged the city for 10 years and they didn't think this was maybe a bad idea?
Wouldn't you give up after a year?
Well, no, that's the thing.
Incredibly long sieges, sieges of well over a decade, are very common in the ancient world.
And much earlier than Alexander and the great Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, the Spartans besiege Athens every year for literal decades, right?
They march into Attica every year, they devastate the crops, they send everyone scurrying behind the long walls of Athens, and then they
Year after year, they just sit there.
They don't try to take the city.
They don't try to knock the walls down.
They don't try to really do anything.
They just sit.
One day, they'll give in.
They're like, and years pass, and 10 years pass, and more years pass.
Diaries...
is of a different generation.
He comes of age like Alexander during the period where the Greece of squabbling city-states gives way to the Greece of Philip II, where the power of Alexander's father, Philip II of Macedon, and the power of the Macedonian army gradually extends over south from Macedon, over mainland Greece, and starts to sort of
exert this kind of malign and inescapable influence over Greek affairs.
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