Picture a time when all of your friends and allies are being picked off, one by one, by an army that seems invincible. You are an Athenian, your turn might be next, for you are soft and life is easy. You let others go to war for you, hire soldiers to die for you. The great statesman Demosthenes tries to wake you up, to warn you that your enemy is Philip of Macedon. You take your seat in the Athenian assembly, and Demosthenes is about to speak...