48 - Comparison: Lysander and Sulla
Cost of Glory
What Is the Meaning of Virtue in a Man?
Think about young Pompey and Crassus who never could have come to prominence so early in their lives if the Roman state wasn't in such a terrible crisis. And do you remember, by the way, the story of Lysander trying to get the oracles to prophesy that some God wanted Sparta to choose kings from the best man and not just from hereditary inheritance? That was tricky, right? But at least it wasn't murderous.
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