Quote Originally Posted by moonburn View Post
i once considered writting a political intrigue novel based on the koinon and the central families of the athenaios and the spartan king always going at odds against the rhodian europontids spartans and creating alot of tensions over voting buying votes assassinations buying off entire city´s to get 1 extra vote deciding beteween pitching for the korinthian vote or the aechean vote since one wanted to ban prostitution and several other stuff and everytime the koinon grew it would become slower to react due to the political tension until it all came down dieing over it´s own weith as new parties emerged and a big and uncontrolable wave of newborn nationalism sweapt across the koinon since taxs where being wasted buying votes and people and where far higher then the litle protection it give due to the inactivity of the executive branch being always second guessed by the assembly of the free greeks
Satire of modern Europe using Koinon Hellenon as an analogy of EU? Because it certainly sounds like that...