Re: The Athenian Democracy Illusion


"BernardZ" <bernardZ@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <7fednd3SkeUGtczeRVnyiA@xxxxxxxxx>,
> agamemnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> Moreover, judging from the way Athenian orators
>> > address juries, pay for jury service was not a bribe for the very poor
>> > but
>> > compensation paid to people of moderate substance for absence from
>> > their
>> > gainful activities. The
>>
>> You mean like sitting around all day waiting for crops to grow.
>>
> No BernardZ, farmers have to constantly weed and prune their crops and
> orchards, as well as water them, which in Greece during the summer months
> is a big worry. Farmers also have to make sure their livestock are
> watered, fed, and guarded.
>
> I remember reading that farmers in the M.E. a hundred years ago had long
> periods with little to do. They tended to sit in coffee houses drinking
> coffee and talking.
>
> The Middle East is mostly a desert, while Greece has a subtropical
> Mediterranean dry climate, with hot, dry summers, and mild, rainy winters.
> Sometimes heavy snowfall falls on the highest peaks of the Greek mountains
> during the winter months.
>
>
>
> --
> Don't miss the turnoff on a German freeway! If you do you have to drive
> for ages to get to the next turnoff. One suspect that the thought that
> someone could miss the turnoff never occurred to the German engineer
> that designed the freeway.
>
> Observations of Bernard - No 85
>
I still do not know what you are talking about BernardZ, but for your
information there are no known Germans in my ancestry for as far as can be
traced, and neither are their any Nazi collaborators.


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