re: #388 The Ghost of a Flea

Yeah, the two paragraphs are doing two different things.

First: people read Thucydides and don’t get it because they’re used to a narrative framework in which Greece is the protagonist.

Second: that narrative framework is the black-and-white image of Greece versus Persia, which is much more appetizing and thus what prevails.

Doesn’t match my learning experience, but I was further into it than most. (By the way, who are all the Thucydides readers you mention — I’m the only one I know.)

And I have to run now, I’ll check back later.