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Battles that changed the world; Okinawa, Shiloh, and Delium altered the terrain of thought.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
; ...Shiloh, and the little-known Battle of Delium in Greece. A professor of classics at...is the ruinous but obscure Battle of Delium in 424 BC, when the Athenians were annihilated by the Thebans. Delium included what is likely the first recorded...
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Warrior Codes; A tour of the battlefield's unexpected legacies.
; ...2, 1945; Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862; and Delium, November 424 B.C. Okinawa is the most...leadership in the Ku Klux Klan after the war. Delium is not among the ancient battles familiar...result, the Athenians were badly beaten at Delium just across the Boeotian border. The shock...
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Analysis: Watershed events and how their effects can be felt many years later
; ...beginning of the Civil War; and the little-remembered battle of Delium, which happened in 424 BC during the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece. As it happens, we've actually discussed the battle of Delium on a previous program with Victor Davis Hanson, so if we give...
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Hardbacks
; ...on Charles I succumbing to the plague. In other cases, it can seem hyperbolic - for example, the effect of Socrates dying at Delium, we are told, would be a radical change in our ideas of democracy; but the author doesn't quantify further . Diverting, if...
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Playing with alternate history again, Hastings to atom bomb.(B)(Books)
; ...Athenian contingent that was devastated at Delium in 424 B.C. by a Theban force allied with...teachings, was a child of about five when the Delium debacle occurred. If Socrates had suffered...comic playwright knew Socrates before Delium, and in his play Clouds portrays him as...
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WARS' infinite impact.(BOOKS)
; ...battles of Okinawa in World War II, Shiloh in the Civil War, and Delium in the Peloponnesian War between the Athenian Empire and the...one Mr. Hanson will probably feel that he did the best job on. Delium is an obscure battle from the Peloponnesian war, long forgotten...
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Da Vinci kicked up a stink; answers to correspondents.
; ...ago, during the Peloponnesian War, the Spartans used arsenic smoke to remove their enemies during the sieges of Plataea and Delium. The Romans were also adept at using a deadly form of stink bomb when they fired 'toxic smoke' against the Charakitanes in Spain...
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Flame On! U.S. Incentiary Weapons, 1918-1945
; ...includes information on such interesting topics as the use of a primitive flamethrower by attacking Boeotians during the siege of Delium (424 B.C., during the Peloponnesian War) and the development of "Greek Fire" by the Byzantine engineer Kallinokos. However...
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Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think
; ...often the ones who die in the fighting. The battles he discusses are Okinawa in the spring of 1945, Shiloh in April 1862, and Delium in November 424 B.C. These three battles, according to Hanson, have shaped the development of Western thought, American culture...
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A world sans socrates, potatoes: practicing `alternate history' can be a trifling indulgence or an insightful exercise. It's most engaging when most provocative, as a new collection of essays proves. (Books).(Review)
; ...nature of Western thought. A 45-year-old hoplite (heavy infantryman) was part of a ragtag contingent that was devastated at Delium in 424 B.C. by a Theban force allied with Sparta. Few Athenians escaped in the bloody rout. But Socrates did. A savvy veteran...
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