And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
The Funerary Stela of Demokleides, a Greek Hoplite, 394 BC
as opposed to standard strength
ReplyDeleteCarved sandstone? A beautiful and touching piece that sent me on a trip to learn and re-learn about Hoplites and social orders of 2500 years ago.
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