‘The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must’. Լոռիին մտորումները

Lorie Berberian“The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.” This was the phrase the winning Athenians proudly declared over their enemies during the Peloponnesian War of 404 BCE. In offering an ultimatum of surrender or death to the Melians, the victors identified this ruling principle of their foreign policy, one that ...