David: And also a wealth preservation tactic for different families. I couldn’t believe that I was talking to a friend in Saudi Arabia probably two months ago, and so we’re talking. And I’m like, “Hey, tell
As the story goes, when the city of Marathon was under siege by the Persians, the Athenians chose a messenger to run to Sparta for reinforcements. The distance was 26 miles and 385 yards. For hundreds of years, through almost countless Olympics, track events, city runs and competitions, ...
showing that it was an important part of different cultures and societies. The term “symposium” literally means, “drinking together”, and would take place in the andron, which was a men’s room. In the andron the men
Sparta is an ancient Greek city state. At the time it was one of the most powerful city states of ancient Greece, Sparta had a population of twelve hundred people. Sparta was well known for its devoted soldiers and powerful military. ...
In 1787, while our first 13 states adopted their new constitution, Alexander Tyler who was a Scottish History Professor at the University of Edinburgh, said this about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2000 years earlier: “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist...
And speaking of queens, why was England's Rocket Man not the Games' wacky mascot carrying the guttering torch like a candle in the wind? And why then would he not be afforded a medal for pummeling Material Girl Madge on the pommel horse? And in Her Majesty's Jubilee Year where was ...
the work I was doing / am doing / am never not doing at the time was the work of treating human bodies like playing pieces on a table, and missiles like dice hurled for effect. It’s an abstracted world, to me, one of full tangible and horrific harm in the human condition. It is...
and a rigorous education and training regimen mandated for all Spartans, male and female. The purpose was to train citizens to be unflinching in battle. Everyone’s duty was to the state – to Sparta – not to their families or themselves. They would live and die for the state (what we...
like old friends doing their parts. It is almost a too perfect friendship premise to pull in an audience that is still in pandemic lock down mode. But the hard turn on the fate trope was not a very good Ep. 1 ending, especially after a one-night stand. And the “everyone is ...