O'Kseain, Angiele in Lacedaemonio,

so titide, K'e,

K'e-Metha, toys, kainon,

re-masi, pay thomenoy.

Or in English,

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here obedient to their words. This famous words by the ancient poet Simonides about the heroic death of the 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae was exploited by the Nazi

Germans in 1943 during the Battle of Stalingrad to justify the loss of the encircled

six German army.

The Nazi propaganda changed the meaning of the verse in a very subtle way,

and thus made use of a fatal translation error,

which goes all the way back to the famous orator Cicero.

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Episode 96, Athens on the offensive.

The years 427 to 424 BC had witnessed a major change in strategy away from Pericles'

predominantly defensive policy.

New generals, such as Demosthenes, had appeared on the Athenian political scene, and backed by politicians

in Athens, like Cleon, they had said about taking the initiative to Sparta in the hopes of winning

the war offensively and decisively. This newer

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