Going Back, Again, To Athens

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RonaldFPrice Registered User Posts: 5 (10/7/05 11:01 am) Reply	Going Back, Again, To Athens PERSIANS, YET AGAIN, AT THE PERIFERY In 404 BC Athens surrendered and the Athenian sea power, the Athenian empire, was at an end....As time went on dissention and discord increased among all factions. -Ron Price, Ancient History Notes: Greece 478 to 404 BC., Thornlie Tafe, 1992. As we watch the demise of democracy we ponder the complexities of Pericles and wonder if our apparent democracy is the same as his apparent democracy. As Athens drowned in a sea of waring complexities, poor decision making and a traditional and unreasoning occultism, so, too, are we drowning. Our short experiment with this ancient political form is in its final hour, as we wait and watch and wonder where we go to now. We have had our Ionian War, our Rule of the Thirty, our Antiphons and Theramenes, our profanation of the mysteries and disasterous Sicilian expedition, but what will be our surrender? A recrudescent right-wing authoritarianism, now known or not known, an anarchous nationalism, a barbarism of the proletariat, a peaceful, quiet, democratic theocracy with the future in its bones and Persians, yet again, at the perifery? Ron Price 19 December 1995

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