Robert Graves, probably best known as the author of I, Claudius, once wrote a jokey little poem about the Persian Wars that began:
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
The poem played with the fact that the Persian Wars, which loom so large in Greek (and therefore Western) history, go completely unmentioned in …
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