When we became enemies The Persians had the misfortune to be the others, the enemies – in short, against whom the first European civilisation defined itself All western political theory is implicitly defined against the ghost of Persia – from condemnations of “tyrants” in the Atlantic republican tradition to Marx’s caricature of “oriental despotism”. In winning their nationhood, the Greeks
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