17: Fear, Fate and Power

History in the Making - by Rob Sims by Rob Sims

Apr 19, 201700:38:59Society & Culture

Fear and anger can convince us to do terrible things. It is often only once we take time to collect ourselves that we see how outrageous our actions were. As the first few years of the Peloponnesian War preserve a violen...

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