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.
Thursday, March 19, 2026
The Funerary Stela of Demokleides, a Greek hoplite, 394 BC, very modern in style
An ancient soldier fishing for dinner?
ReplyDeletevery nice, timeless.
ReplyDeleteQuestion is did he come home bearing the shield or laying upon it?
ReplyDeleteThat was directed at Spartans, who cared nil for what theybrest of the Greeks did.
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