In his cute, brief poem, The Persian Version, written between 1938 and 1945, Robert Graves speculatively lampooned how he imagined Achaemenid elites must have rationalized their defeat at the hands of some quarrelsome, backwards Greeks located at the very western extreme of their magnificent empire. You can get the sense from the first two lines: "Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon /
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon…"
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