Anyway I gave it a shot.
“Were they the ones that hung out with the Persians?”, I said.
Apparently this wasn’t the right answer.
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Wrong As Usual
Wednesday, 20 Jun 2018, 01:19
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Edited by Richard Walker, Wednesday, 20 Jun 2018, 01:27
I’m in this seminar right, and the tutor picks on me and asks “What do you know about medians?” I’m thinking “What am I supposed to know about Medians? I'm taking Statistics, not History.”
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Easy mistake to make, but in fact they're the ones who believe you should only consume fermented bee products.
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I didn't know you could ferment bees.
Or am I being waspish?
Anyway, isn't a median the straight half of a comedy double act?
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It's funny how words recur having seen them once.
I just had a quote from Thucydides about justice and power pop up in a computer game - totally relevant to my last module DD301 - and looked it up. It was:
“The question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”
It comes from his History of the Peloponnesian War which refers to the all-powerful Athens believing justice was of no consequence in inter-state relations, whereas the weaker Sparta and its allies felt justice was most important. So they ended up going to war over this.
My eye caught the section of Book 6 entitled 'The Spartans give not liberty but a “Median master” to the Greeks'. I presume it was this to which you referred.