{"id":1445,"date":"2011-10-27T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2011-10-27T09:51:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T13:51:23","slug":"six-quotes-samons-on-ancient-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/10\/27\/six-quotes-samons-on-ancient-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Quotes: Samons on Ancient Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kaulbach\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cTriremes were built to kill. You can’t have fun on a trireme. You can’t water-ski behind one. You can’t hold an afternoon BBQ on one. You can’t do anything but kill on a trireme.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cWhy did the Athenians beat the Persians? Because the Persians showed up to the wars with wicker shields. Wicker. The Persians showed up with Pier 1 armor.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cWhat do you know about Sparta? Leather underwear (because you have all seen that terrible movie<\/a>. Look, even the Greeks didn’t wear leather underwear and do you know why? Because chafing is a universal concept, scholars.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. \u201cThe poets said Pericles’ head was shaped like a ‘sea-onion’. I don’t know what a sea-onion is but you don’t want your head to be shaped like one. It’s not a good look.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. \u201cSome gods like their wine poured on the ground because that’s how they like it: dirty. It’s good to be a god.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. \u201cAssembly of Citizens is the most important organ of the polis<\/em>. Are we going to war? This is the types of issue the Assembly directly <\/em>voted on. Imagine that… You came into this place thinking democracy is great for you have freedom to vote, to occupy. Because we are the 99%.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As recorded by Core office employee Winona Hudak during Prof. Jay Samons’ discussion of Athens in the 5th century at the October 18th CC101 lecture.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u201cTriremes were built to kill. You can’t have fun on a trireme. You can’t water-ski behind one. You can’t hold an afternoon BBQ on one. You can’t do anything but kill on a trireme.\u201d \u201cWhy did the Athenians beat the Persians? Because the Persians showed up to the wars with wicker shields. Wicker. The Persians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3860],"tags":[3689,2470,194,4345,6683,6957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}