XERXES AND THE MOUNT ATHOS CANAL

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http://www.livius.org/articles/place/xerxes-canal-across-the-athos/

The construction of Xerxes' canal across the base of mount Athos is the type of hybristic engineering project which Plato's Atlanteans, themselves great canal-builders, indulge in. This link takes to a reanslation of Herodotus' description of the work and his comment on the morality of it, as well as some useful discussion and further references.

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Monday, March 6, 2017

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Ancient history, Archaeology, Classical art & archaeology, Classical Greek literature, Philosophy

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