Mutilation of the Hermai in Athens in 415 B.C. and the ‘Defence of the Statues’ in 2020 and 2021 A.D.

‘Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.’’

(Winston Churchill)

It was during the Peloponnesian War ( 431 — 404 B.C. ) that a massive armed…