Eclipsex
Make love, not war
- Late one afternoon in early spring 586 BC, Carchemish, where the Euphrates crosses the present Syrian-Turkish border - "Molat, I got your money!" Bardylla burst into Molat's tavern in Carchemish, a lawless border town that paid nominal homage to King Syennesis of Cilicia, a small state that eked out a tenuous existence among the major powers of the region: Babylonia, Media, Lydia and—far to the south, but with dreams of...