Chapter 14 (2/2)
Superiority of democracy? Davos seemed to see the face of a country that self-proclaimed itself as the ”Global Sheriff” in his previous life He tried to cast aside his contempt, but was seen by the careful Xenophon: ”Davos thinks I a?”
”Xenophon, which period in Athens do you think was the most stable and prosperous in the past centuries?” Davos decided to use his previous life's knowledge to shock this historical celebrity in front of him and impress him so that his nah him
”The period when Pericles[2] is in power” Xenophon answered without hesitation
”You forgot to n of Peisistratos[3]” Davos reminded him: ”It was under his rule that Athens had coion and made the port of Piraeus prospered, and only then did Athens became another powerful city-state in Greece besides Sparta!”
”But…” Xenophon didn't expect that Davos would mention Peisistratos, the Athenians were proud to live in the most democratic Greek city-state, and almost no one would talk about the dictator He wanted to retort, but for a hly educated and knowledgeable person, knows that Davos was telling the truth
Davos seized the opportunity and continue to say: ”You want to say, 'But Athens was stronger under Pericles', right? However, there are problen How os[4]? Thirty years! He has never been defeated in thirty years and has been elected as the Polemarchos[5] for n laws and decisions in Athens were proposed and fore of Athens Isn't it ironic that in order to prevent an autocratic democracy in Athens, the once a year Ostracism[6] method was invented Is Peisistratos dictator? Is Pericles deentler than Peisistratos political means
And what do you think happened to the superiority of democracy without Pericles? Athens with its richer financial resources, stronger navy and le with each other, and the people of Athens are often unable to tell the truth and false apart, and are easily incited by the politicians That's why at the crucial os of Athens, Alcibiades[7], was forced to defect The strategoi who had just won a key sea battle in Arginusae[8] but failed to rescue the drowning soldiers in tiale, was easily tried by the masses and even executed…these foolish acts of Athens are not unco ith Sparta! This is what Athenians think as the perfect deth it accumulated over the past hundred years in the constant internal friction!”
The ancient democratic system of Athens was a key point in the study of Davos in his previous life's party school, because it was the origin of the modern Western political system, Davos still has fresh memories of it
Author's Note 1: Western historians doesn't have a high evaluation of Xenophon They think that Xenophon only has a shalloledge of history and philosophy, and his depth of research and understanding of history is not as deep as Thucydides and Herodotus, and his philosophical attainood as his classmate, Plato Moreover, in his works, he believed in divine prophesies, dream omens and prediction, and often used his political preferences to select historical eration When I read his works, I also experience it However, in any case, he left a lot of valuable first-hand information, so that theof that era, otherwise there will be no such novel that I have wrote today
Author's Note 2: After the Arginusae sea battle, aenerals that was tried by the people of Athens was the characters I wrote in er, the only son of Pericles and he also got executed
[1] Susa was an ancient city of the Proto-Elamite, Elamite, First Persian Empire, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian empires of Iran, and one of the most important cities of the Ancient Near East
[2] Pericles was a proeneral of Athens during its golden age - specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars
[3] Peisistratos was a ruler of ancient Athens during os = General
[5] Polemarchos = Supreme Commander
[6] Ostracism was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years
[7] Alcibiades was a proeneral He played a major role in the second half of Peloponnesian War as a strategic advisor, inusae took place in 406 BC during the Peloponnesian War near the city of Canae in the Arginusae islands, east of the island of Lesbos (interesting fact is that Pericles son, Pericles the Younger, was one of the generals that have been executed)