DZ Season 063 Part 7. 300 Spartans and All That – Was Xerxes a Hedgehog or a Fox.
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Was Xerxes a hedgehog or a fox? Since there’s an overwhelming chance that you have no idea what I’m talking about I am going to have to explain aren’t I.
But first to get some context. Xerxes plans for invading Greece had received an enthusiastic response from everyone except his uncle, Artabanus. Now poised on the brink of crossing from Asia to Europe, Xerxes wanted to revisit this question with his uncle one last time. I think he’d like him to volunteer that he is now wholly behind the project, without being threatened by a ghost.
Tag words: Xerxes; Artabanus; Greece; Herodotus’ The Histories; John Lewis Gaddis; On Grand Strategy; Bosphorous; Aeschylus; The Persians; Darius; Isaiah Berlin; The Hedgehog and the Fox; Umberto Eco; Foucault’s Pendulum; Philip Tetlock; Expert Political Judgment
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