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 ====== Xerxes and the Exultation of Power ====== ====== Xerxes and the Exultation of Power ======
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 ''Seest thou how God with his lightning smites always the bigger animals, and will not suffer them to wax insolent, while those of a lesser bulk chafe him not? How likewise his bolts fall ever on the highest houses and the tallest trees? So plainly does He love to bring down everything that exalts itself.'' - Herodotus Book 7.10 ''Seest thou how God with his lightning smites always the bigger animals, and will not suffer them to wax insolent, while those of a lesser bulk chafe him not? How likewise his bolts fall ever on the highest houses and the tallest trees? So plainly does He love to bring down everything that exalts itself.'' - Herodotus Book 7.10
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 Epicurus' goal was to eliminate anxiety and reduce fear. Herodotus foreshadows the lessons of this goal by showing that Xerxes' ambition will bring nothing but pain and suffering to his people and the Greeks. Xerxes in the end fails and his ambitions are crushed. If only more people understood this idea; the world would be a much better place.  Epicurus' goal was to eliminate anxiety and reduce fear. Herodotus foreshadows the lessons of this goal by showing that Xerxes' ambition will bring nothing but pain and suffering to his people and the Greeks. Xerxes in the end fails and his ambitions are crushed. If only more people understood this idea; the world would be a much better place. 
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