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Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing | The New Thinkery Ep. 46

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Zenithin's Anabasis of Cyrus

David Frum: Zenithin wrote about a military exhibition that he was a part of, from Greece to the heart of Persia. He says Cyrus's mother is agreed by all to have been Mandain. His father is said to have been Cambyses. Now that's another silly trivial example, but he will use this phrase, it is said to insert some doubt into what he actually being said. And I think there, if you go through and literally make lists, so he'll say, for example, Spartans do, here's how other Greeks did things. And the Spartans did things completely opposite to how all the other Greeks did it. But in his regime of the Spartans,

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