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* [[Cassandra Truth]]
* [[Erastes Eromenos]]
* [[Everyone Is Armed]]: Downplayed. Slaves, women, and foreign visitors weren't and just lugging a sword around town in the middle of the day wasn't always polite. But the franchise tended to be associated with the possession of weapons. Indeed in Athens there was a long controversy over whether naval rowers should be enfranchised as they clearly were contributing to the common defense, but they were not decked out like [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen|honorable hoplites]], did not own their own weapons, and did not have enough land to prove they would be interested in the survival of a state that guarded it. With all those complications, being armed was considered part and parcel of being a citizen
* [[Fatal Flaw]]
* [[Forever War]]: War was at first a seasonal activity although Greeks preferred to have one battle a year and then adjust each cities turf accordingly so they could get back to their crops. After the Persian invasion showed them what war was like when an absolutist monarch imposed his ideas of war on it war became more bitter and all pervasive.
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