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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QUOTE][i] And again, believing that to feel contempt for one's enemies infuses a certain courage for the fight, Agesilaus gave orders to his heralds that the barbarians who were captured by the Greek raiding parties should be exposed for sale naked. Thus the soldiers, seeing that these men were white-skinned because they never were without their clothing, and soft and unused to toil because they always rode in carriages, came to the conclusion that the war would be in no way different from having to fight with women [/i] -- Xenophon, Hellenica [qb] Maybe, but it's military propaganda[/qb][/QUOTE]Of course it's military propaganda, but are you saying Xenophon's description of their skin color is a fabrication?? [QUOTE][qb]Scholars say these captured "barbarians" were Persians. I'm not sure if that's a sure thing[/qb][/QUOTE][b]LOL[/b] This is like saying you're not sure that the black people with woolly hair whom Herodtus saw in Egypt were really Egyptians. By that shallow logic, everything recorded that is observed by first eye account is questionable. [QUOTE][qb] [IMG]https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1954d617f7ec998f538adae30a48ac1c-c[/IMG] ^^ But what is the evidence that theses are Elamites? If they are not Persians because of what Xenophon said why would they be Elamites? [/qb][/QUOTE]Look twit, it's not based soley on Xenophon but all the Greek sources as well as Assyrian and Egyptian. The Indo-European speaking Persians and their Mede kinsmen are fair-skinned people whereas the indigenous Elamites were not. It's as simple as that. The Persian Empire was a large multi-ethnic, multi-national group. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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