Quote Originally Posted by Wigferth Ironwall
I don't think they even had an "Ideological" hatred of the Greeks, not until the Greeks conquered them, anyway. The Greeks seem to go the same way, they were fine with the near East until it tried to go West.

Although, as I understand it, the Sassanids were more totalitarian.
Yeh, I probably should have mentioned - its all about the achaemenids, baby!

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