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White people use their monopoly over media to propagate their racial and historical lies so much, that it is folly to try and keep up with it.
But one particular lie that is often quoted, has always irked me for its blatant falsehood and stupidity.
Everyone has seen some ass-hole White Boy or Turk post this:
"Xenophon describes the Ethiopians as black, and the Persian troops as white compared to the sun-tanned skin of Greek troops."
This same quote is found in Wiki under the subject "White people"
Now of course any intelligent, reasonably educated person, knows that the Persians, like all ancient people of that area, were as Black as night.
So the question to me was:
Was Xenophon an ass-hole White Boy liar, or is it just those pathetic pink-assed modern White boys who are the liars.
In order to find out which was the case, I had to peruse through all of Xenophon's works. The only such writing was found in "HELLENICA".
HELLENICA
By Xenophon
B.C. 395. After this, at the first indication of spring, he collected the whole of his army at Ephesus. But the army needed training. With that object he proposed a series of prizes—prizes to the heavy infantry regiments, to be won by those who presented their men in the best condition; prizes for the cavalry regiments which could ride best; prizes for those divisions of peltasts and archers which proved most efficient in their respective duties. And now the gymnasiums were a sight to see, thronged as they were, one and all, with warriors stripping for exercise; or again, the hippodrome crowded with horses and riders performing their evolutions; or the javelin men and archers going through their peculiar drill. In fact, the whole city where he lay presented under his hands a spectacle not to be forgotten. The market-place literally teemed with horses, arms, and accoutrements of all sorts for sale. The bronze-worker, the carpenter, the smith, the leather-cutter, the painter and embosser, were all busily engaged in fabricating the implements of war; so that the city of Ephesus itself was fairly converted into a military workshop. (13) It would have done a man's heart good to see those long lines of soldiers with Agesilaus at their head, as they stepped gaily be-garlanded from the gymnasiums to dedicate their wreaths to the goddess Artemis. Nor can I well conceive of elements more fraught with hope than were here combined. Here were reverence and piety towards Heaven; here practice in war and military training; here discipline with habitual obedience to authority. But contempt for one's enemy will infuse a kind of strength in battle. So the Spartan leader argued; and with a view to its production he ordered the quartermasters to put up the prisoners who had been captured by his foraging bands for auction, stripped naked; so that his Hellenic soldiery, as they looked at the white skins which had never been bared to sun and wind, the soft limbs unused to toil through constant riding in carriages, came to the conclusion that war with such adversaries would differ little from a fight with women.
Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia Minor, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era. In the Roman period, it was for many years the second largest city of the Roman Empire; ranking behind Rome, the empire's capital. Ephesus had a population of more than 250,000 in the 1st century BC, which also made it the second largest city in the world.
So yes, Ephesus was a city in the Persian Empire, but it was clearly an Anatolian city that had been conquered by and populated by Greeks - later Romans would take it.
But any fool knows that the whole point of Empire is that many races and cultures are collected into the one.
Therefore calling those rich, White, flabby Greeks of Ephesus, "Persians" was no accident. It was just another, in a very long line of deliberate attempts by White people, to falsify history, and to give them (White People) a position of importance that is false.Posts: 22721 | Registered: Oct 2005
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^As further evidence of the poor scholarship of the White Boys at WiKi: there is no singling-out for mention of any Blacks in any of Xenophon's works. To the educated, this makes perfect sense, because since Black was the "Norm" why bother mentioning it.
Strangely, racially the only people he chooses to singling-out are White, and this with the greatest disdain of their Whiteness. (Sounds like an ancient MK).
There are three of Xenophon's works which mention race: Hellenica, Anabasis, and The Agesilaus.
Hellenica is an important work of the Greek (Spartan) writer Xenophon and one of the principal sources for the final seven years of the Peloponnesian War not covered by Thucydides, and the war's aftermath.
I have already given my quote from Hellenica above.
The Agesilaus
The Agesilaus summarises the life of his Spartan friend and king, whom he met after the events of the Anabasis.
Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II (444 BC – 360 BC) was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC
(The Agesilaus is really a subset of Hellenica).
Quote from "The Agesilaus"
But seeing that contempt for the foe is calculated to infuse a certain strength in face of battle, he ordered his criers to strip naked the barbarians captured by his foraging parties, and so to sell them. The soldiers who saw the white skins of these folk, unused to strip for toil, soft and sleek and lazy-looking, as of people who could only stir abroad in carriages, concluded that a war with women would scarcely be more formidable. Then he published a further order to the soldiers: "I shall lead you at once by the shortest route to the stronghold (13) of the enemy's territory. Your general asks you to keep yourselves on the alert in mind and body, as men about to enter the lists of battle on the instant."
The Anabasis
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and March 399 B.C.
Quote from The Anabasis
The Hellenes breakfasted and then started forward on their march, having first delivered the stronghold to their allies among the Mossynoecians. As for the other strongholds belonging to tribes allied with their foes, which they passed en route, the most accessible were either deserted by their inhabitants or gave in their adhesion voluntarily. The following description will apply to the majority of them: the cities were on an average ten miles apart, some more, some less; but so elevated is the country and intersected by such deep clefts that if they chose to shout across to one another, their cries would be heard from one city to another. When, in the course of their march, they came upon a friendly population, these would entertain them with exhibitions of fatted children belonging to the wealthy classes, fed up on boiled chestnuts until they were as white as white can be, of skin plump and delicate, and very nearly as broad as they were long, with their backs variegated and their breasts tattooed with patterns of all sorts of flowers. They sought after the women in the Hellenic army, and would fain have laid with them openly in broad daylight, for that was their custom. The whole community, male and female alike, were fair-complexioned and white-skinned.
It was agreed that this was the most barbaric and outlandish people that they had passed through on the whole expedition, and the furthest removed from the Hellenic customs, doing in a crowd precisely what other people would prefer to do in solitude, and when alone behaving exactly as others would behave in company, talking to themselves and laughing at their own expense, standing still and then again capering about, wherever they might chance to be, without rhyme or reason, as if their sole business were to show off to the rest of the world.
Trapezus aka (Mossynoecians), is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Originally, it was founded as Trapezus by Greek traders from Miletus (traditionally in 756 BC).
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