/u/RusticBohemian's posts

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Was ordering a Roman to kill themselves considered more compassionate than simply having him executed? If not, why did this method of forced self-execution exist?	8	AskHistorians
Why was ancient Greek considered better than Latin for for discussing philosophy and other intellectual topics in the ancient world? Did Greek have better vocabulary for discussing these themes, or were upper class Romans just being snooty about their language use?	8	AskHistorians
Xenophon, speaking through the mouthpiece of Cyrus the Great, tells us how superior cavalry is to heavy infantry. Was this an unusual perspective for a Greek general to take, given that the Greeks used heavy infantry as the mainstay of their armies?	8	AskHistorians
We hear a lot about Stoics, Epicureans, and Cynics of the classical world, but rarely about Pyronnian Skepticism and its followers. Were many people following this philosophical school, which is supposed to be based of proto Buddhist thought? What sort of influence did it have?	8	AskHistorians
The Marquis de Lafayette was beloved in the United States during and after the War of Independence. Are his contributions as a military leader in the Continental Army considered as significant as the support he lent the cause of independence symbolically and philosophically as a patriot from France?	8	AskHistorians
What practical advantage did Ptolemy gain by seizing the corpse of Alexander The Great and putting it on display in his lands in Egypt?	8	AskHistorians
Xenophon wrote a fictionalized biography praising Cyrus the Great, founder of the first Persian Empire. Yet Xenophon was Greek, and the Greeks were inveterate enemies of the Persians. Xenophon himself fought in a Persian civil war. Would it have been weird for him to praise the founder of Persia?	8	AskHistorians
Was the United State's switch from a conscripted military force to a professional one highly contentious at the time, or simply accepted as rational due to the poor performance of drafted troops in Vietnam?	8	AskHistorians
How widely available was meat in the Soviet Union, and how much did an average person consume?	8	AskHistorians
After wolves and other predator species were wiped out through much of the United States, wild pigs, and occasionally deer, became a huge problem in the United States. Have Europe and other developed countries seen a similar pattern play out?	8	AskHistorians

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