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Vânătorul negru (excerpts)
Vânătorul negru (excerpts)
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
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Excerpts from Vidal-Naquet's "The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World" - a classical interpretation of several Greek mind and cultural phenomena - regarding the battle of Leuctra. In war, whoever changes first the rules is the most likely to win - but were Epaminonda's improvisations purely strategic or rather backed by a philosophical framework? Were the new battle tactics arbitrary, cunning or were they altering the whole ancient Greek worldview thoroughly?
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