Douglas Galbi

Worse than a slave-trader, the Greek man Panionios of Chios about 2500 years ago made his living by purchasing beautiful young men and castrating them. He then sold the castrated, enslaved men in Sardis and Ephesus to Persians seeking eunuchs. That’s especially horrific trafficking in enslaved men.

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Aristotle’s (apocryphal) advice to Alexander the Great on Persian elites (2013)

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One of the most frequently copied and widely disseminated books in Europe from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries was the Secret of Secrets . Formally it contains advice from the great philosopher Aristotle to the world-conqueror Alexander the Great. Aristotle’s advice covers everything from Alexander’s diet…