"The more things change" moments

>reading Gibbon

>>2465123
>Disregarding one of the most prominent scholars of Western classical history because he said bad things about Christians

>>2465176
>reading Gibbon

>Athenian democracy failed because people started supporting demagogues with no real experience who gave easy answers to complex problems that drove the state into the ground by eroding faith in institutions

>>2465189
And who do you suggest instead

>>2465199
C.S Lewis, I bet

File: athens.png (197KB, 640x800px) Image search: [Google]

197KB, 640x800px

>>2465192

>>2466107
Were it not for Alcibiades and his dreams of glory the war wouldn't have started in the first place.

>>2466218
He was 19 when it started.

Gibbon is important in terms of historiography but many of his ideas are out-dated or really fedora

>>2464067
Christians are paranoid retards though. Even the "smart" ones like Aquinas.

>>2466427
He literally believed miracles were commonplace in the early years of the church though. Not much of a fedora in that sense.

>>2464067
Not a single thing has changed in Serbian politics for over 70 years. And we've been through 3 countries, a series of wars and a revolution.

File: agame.jpg (133KB, 800x600px) Image search: [Google]

133KB, 800x600px

>>2464067

>The Great Game has been reignited in your life time between the U.K and Russia for dominance of the Middle East