Athenians Defeat Spartans

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“The Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.”
—Bible: New Testament Acts 17:21.

“Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chronicled ... never before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)