How am I supposed to sympathize with the Greeks?
Two words: Artemisia's childhood.
How am I supposed to sympathize with the Greeks?
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If you're going to hold one child's miserable life against an entire society then you're not going to able to not do the same with all of the past and present societies of man. As in every one of them has done and has had *beep* things done to it's citizens.
shareBlunt, backhanded, but ultimately a good enough answer.
That didn't really happen to the real Artemisia, though.
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Might agree if she had been captured and tortured by a civilian that just happened to be a greek... But if you go with the story it was done by the Greek Hoplites so basically it was the army of the people of Greece... So frankly I was on her side - kill them all.
shareKill ALL Greeks because of the actions of a band of soldiers?
"Tahiti is not in Europe . . . I'm going to be SICK."
There was no army of the people of Greece. The Greeks were not united under a single government which was why Themistocles was trying to unite them against Persia. Greece was divided into many city-states that shared certain cultural traits like language and religion. Yet at the same time could be very different culturally as evidenced by Sparta and Athens. She could blame the city-state the soldiers are from, but it is wrong to place everyone for at worst the crime of a single city-state.
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