DECISIVE BATTLES
Sir-Did the writer of " Decisive Battles" read his text too hastily, or the sub-editorial curtailing pen get out of hand, or the compositor lose a few linotype slugs, that the second and third paragraphs of the article on the Battle of Mataurus should give four misreadings of Greek history? It was Athens at Salamis and Mykale as well as Sparta at Platea that shattered the power of Persia in Europe. It was Macedonia that rose to power under Philip and Alexander and, having broken Thebes and resurgent Athens, crushed the world empire of the Persians in Asia and Egypt. But apart from this, and the implication that the Greeks as well as the Etruscans were not Aryans, I am glad to see and read these articles, and rejoice that for some at least the story of the nations will not be merely the little bit of English History they stumbled through at school.
CHAS. R.
MACDONALD
(Auckland),
(We exonerate the compositor.-~Ed.).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 68, 11 October 1940, Page 16
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163DECISIVE BATTLES New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 68, 11 October 1940, Page 16
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