Melian dialogues

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 23 19:55:55 PDT 2002



>>There's a great line in the Melian dialogue that goes (something like):
>>The powerful do to the weak what they choose to and can and the weak have
>>no choice but to accept this.
>
>OK. But let's remember that this line was spoken by the loser of the
>Peloponesian war: the "powerful" Athens.
>
>Joanna
>

Your point, J? Who is our Sparta? Last I heard they went down in 1989-91. jks

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