the 1st Libertarians in recorded history: the citizens of Argos
Submitted by 7mai on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 04:05i discovered this piece of data while researching the origins of my name. here it goes:
When Pausanias visited Argos in the 2nd century CE, he related the succession of Danaus to the throne, judged by the Argives (citizens of Argos), who
from the earliest times... have loved freedom and self-government, and they limited to the utmost the authority of their kings
Argos, the ancient city-state of Libertarians....the more you know.
So the Argons are Paulunteers and Spartans are NeoCons?
I'm feeling a bit like hacking.
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not really. the spartans used
not really. the spartans used to fight their own wars unlike neocohens (or trotzky-ites to be more exact). but the Argives were definetely Paulunteers.
.ro
Perhaps...
this is much older?
Call it what you will- is this real or imagined?
A very limited Government, no armies to muster, extremely moral, very interesting~ to say the least!
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/vril/vrl00.htm
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Yeah they got hosed by the Spartans
At the battle of Thyreas.
300 Argrives duked it out with 300 Spartans over the land dispute and the essentially hacked themselves to death. Only 2 Argrives lived and one deeply wounded Spartan. Both sides claimed victory - which led to an all out battle where the Spartans whooped em pretty good.
I have to go back and check the history on it but I think it was around 550 bc or so. Great history from Greece. I love that stuff.
"It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
--Samuel Adams
it's weird
that the one surviving spartan, Othryades, commited suicide after "claiming victory". why would someone who just won a battle commit suicide? well, because they actually lost and he survived that battle not fighting to the end as the spartan code instructed.
also, why would 2 Argives not finish off the last remaining spartan and be done with it?
what actually happened was Argos won, those 2 went back to announce the victory and the one spartan faked death, or fled only to return a little later to strip the bodies of the Argives to save face.
Sparta did defeat Argos later, but the Argives got those plains back later through arbitration.
.ro