The Peloponnesian war has even been turned into a victory for Athenian Democracy over Spartan autocracy. Cf. Popper
Later, the fall of Rome was blamed, in effect, on pagan liberalism, but also denied to be a fall, and furthermore, its aftermath described as a mostly peaceful Christian liberal and barbarian collaborative multicultural mostly peaceful transformation into and through Late Antiquity. Ward-Perkins, p. 21.
Why not call it The Pax Germanica!
This post is dedicated to J C D Clark, sine qua non.
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