Lessons for NATO from Ancient Greece’s Delian League

Following NATO’s critical summit in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, it is timely to reflect on parallels between the ancient Greek alliance against Persia and NATO’s response to Russian aggression.

 
Ancient Greece is often considered the birthplace of democracy and the ancient bedrock of Western civilisation. It was also where an early alliance of disparate nations came together to retain their autonomy in the face of a tyrannical foreign invader. There are more than a few echoes of the Persian invasion of Greece in the fifth century – and the alliance of Greek city states in response – in today’s Russian invasion of Ukraine and NATO’s robust reaction.

Depicted dramatically in the poetry of Aeschylus, his play Persians, produced in 472 BC, captures the spirit of resistance among the Greeks in opposition to the Persian threat: ‘Charge! Greek men, set your country free! Save your children, your wives, the holy temples of your fathers’ gods, the sacred tombs of your ancestors! Now is the time to fight for all these things!’ It is no stretch to imagine similar words coming from Ukraine’s charismatic president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Πηγή: engelsbergideas.com

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