Notices by peter falling down vocoded to gangstas paradise (nothingeverhappens@mai.waifuism.life), page 3

@waifu maps are COOL how dare you question that

From commentaries:* The almost casual reference may be a further remark directed against Herodotus, so it intentionally undermines the importance of his work in order to magnify the significance of the subject.My brother in Christ, in the beginning of and before history as a concept you had just literally TWO people at its foundation and they already were after each other's throats, that's like two last developers on earth will eat each other alive over opinions about the best programming language i dkont know this can't be real :trollge::trollge::trollge::trollge::trollge:

The Peloponnesian War was prolonged to an immense length, and, long as it was, it was short without parallel for the misfortunes that it brought upon Hellas. Never had so many cities been taken and laid desolate, here by the barbarians, here by the parties contending; never was there so much banishing and blood-shedding, now on the field of battle, now in the strife of faction. Old stories of occurrences handed down by tradition, but scantily confirmed by experience, suddenly ceased to be incredible; there were earthquakes of unparalleled extent and violence; eclipses of the sun occurred with a frequency unrecorded in previous history; there were great droughts in sundry places and consequent famines, and that most calamitous and awfully fatal visitation, the plague. All this came upon them with the late war ...If only they knew back then in 5th century bc

The Epidamnians knew not what to do and enquired of the God whether they should deliver up the city to their original founders. The God replied that they should.I pray someday the way of historiography returns to its roots and our papers will actually and seriously contain stuff like this again

oh also a very cool detail, the first spread has an actual map relevant to the time period described! not very useful now with the internet, but it's nice to zone out into...

so the entire epic war had started just because two whatever cities had a quarrel over a whatever colony and just so happened that one asked for alliance of major-RTS-fraction-1 which is ""Athens"" and the other one asked for alliance of major-RTS-fraction-2 which is ""Sparta"", and so with two polar powers involved the shit hit hard.

Why don't we have a Command & Conquer spin-off about this

@lebronjames75@shitposter.world mushroom bros rise up

@waifu don't tell me you are running all that fat shit on your server as part of misskey.........................

@waifu what's that?

'The dwellers on the sea coast began to grow richer and live in a more settled manner [...] The love of gain made the weaker willing to serve the stronger, and the command of wealth enabled the more powerful to subjugate the lesser cities.'
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War / Book One / 8ohhhhhhHHHH BOY boy. Honestly though the best part is to be able to pick up on these small worldview details here and there by someone who had lived so damn infinitely long ago

The greatness of cities should be estimated by their real power and not by appearances🤓

But as want of money proved the weakness of earlier expeditions, so from the same cause even the one in question, more famous than its predecessors, may be pronounced on the evidence of what it effected to have been inferior to its renown and to the current opinion about it formed under the tuition of the poets. But... but........ but.............. my Iliad :sadcat: :sadcat: :sadcat:

From commentaries:* the background to this early battle is given by Herodotus (III.48)yay suddenly the cool guy is actually being referenced as a valid source! 🍻

Having now given the result of my inquiries into early times, I grant that there will be a difficulty in believing every particular detail. The way that most men deal with traditions, even traditions of their own country, is to receive them all alike as they are delivered [...] So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.

@waifu wait until he finds out "being wealthy" 💀

@Wiz@loli.church imagine dying on us after just 3 episodes of fedi files... don't you dare 🗞💥

@Wiz@loli.church I hope it gets better tonight, please take care of yourself 🙏

@Wiz@loli.church what are you doing to yourself, korone isn't tsundere!

@meeper why so exactly hyperspecific (bc there is always worse)

@waifu i dont