Loyalty Has a Season

There is an old saying, often attributed to Talleyrand: treason is a matter of dates. The traitor of one year is the founder of the next.Four stories across twenty-five centuries. An Athenian general who served three enemies in a single lifetime. A holy crusade that ended by sacking the city it was meant to save. A diplomatic revolution that traded partners across Europe in a single winter, negotiated between an empress and a king's mistress. And an empire in the East that broke its most solemn promise on the last day of a war.None of them, at the time, were called treason. All of them, later, were.An episode of Risto's History Rhymes.#Alliances #Diplomacy #HistoryPodcast