Now we enter upon the “storied” parts of ancient history. A word seems in order, then, about stories; and so do a couple of stories.
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One would hardly expect to meet a fallacy as blatantly unsatisfying as “I am right because reasons.” Alas, as so often, that unexpectedness does half its work for it.
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Texts in Context:Timeline of the Early Iron Age By Gabriel Blanchard Several dates below are approximate and/or conjectural; some that are especially uncertain are noted with a question
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On the eve of the Persian invasion, let us look more closely at Athens and its opposite number, Sparta.
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Cork (noun). An object put into the mouth of something to prevent fluids from escaping it.
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Or rather, two cries. A revolution in intellectual culture was followed by a revolt, and that revolt was only a hint of the great drama soon to play out on the Hellene stage.
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Archaic Greece saw the politics and culture of their society bloom, to a degree easily equalling the Late-Medieval Renaissance.
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We pause for a moment, in our tracing of Western history, to glance at everybody else’s history.
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The slippery slope fallacy contends that a given idea, choice, or action will behave like Acme Rocket Skates.
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Texts in Context:A Rosy-Fingered Dawn By Gabriel Blanchard The Dark Age of the post-Bronze-Age Ægean is obscure to historians, but what happened next is far less so …
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