Thursday, February 24, 2011

Blood and soil ...

... Benghazi's vicious revolutions.

... Appian, one of the fairer historians of the Spartacus slave war, was caught up in this Cyrene revolt in the Nile delta as a young man. He was the writer on Spartacus who best knew what it was like to be pursued by rebels of highly unreliable behaviour.

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