Abstract:“All are involved ceaselessly in a lifelong war against all states” (Plato
Laws
, 625e). The Cretan Stranger in Plato dialogue was not wrong. Warfare was almost a constant reality in the ancient world, and the continuing prominence of battles and war and of military metaphors in literature of all genres is hardly surprising.
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