[HN Gopher] Cyrus Cylinder Translation: Propaganda from Babylon ...
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       Cyrus Cylinder Translation: Propaganda from Babylon from the Year
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       Author : gumby
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2023-12-17 20:05 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | Nice to see that some tropes never go out of style. /s
       | 
       | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa...
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       | > _The text is interesting because it combines the following
       | techniques, all of them sound: 1) naming the specific enemy; 2)
       | appeal to the "better people"; 3) sympathy for the common people;
       | 4) claim of support for the legitimate government; 5) affirmation
       | of one's own strength and high morale; 6) invocation of unity; 7)
       | appeal to religion._
       | 
       | "The text" in the original refers to something quoted in the
       | _Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San Guo Yan Yi )_ , but we can
       | probably mark Cyrus to market in the affirmative on several of
       | these.
       | 
       | Let's see: 7, 3, 4, 5, 6, 2 for sure, and probably it used to
       | have even 1 in the sections marked "x x x"
       | 
       | Edit: yes, https://www.livius.org/sources/content/cyrus-
       | cylinder/cyrus-... says the expurgated name is "Nabonidus"
        
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