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... Greece united against the bar- barian , of a great deliverance , of high hopefulness , of an Athens soon to become the indisputable head of Greece . Thucydides describes a Greece rent with civil strife , each side courting the barbarian ...
... Greece united against the bar- barian , of a great deliverance , of high hopefulness , of an Athens soon to become the indisputable head of Greece . Thucydides describes a Greece rent with civil strife , each side courting the barbarian ...
Page 46
... Greece , but whether Athenian democracy or Spartan militarism would triumph . Thus we may clearly understand why Thucydides magnified the importance of the Peloponnesian War . The second limitation is " the failure to give an adequate ...
... Greece , but whether Athenian democracy or Spartan militarism would triumph . Thus we may clearly understand why Thucydides magnified the importance of the Peloponnesian War . The second limitation is " the failure to give an adequate ...
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... Greece ; such conceptions as Penelope , Andromache , or Nausicaa would have been impossible in the almost oriental seclusion to which Athenian women were subjected . The same hesitancy is shown in both poems to mount and ride a horse ...
... Greece ; such conceptions as Penelope , Andromache , or Nausicaa would have been impossible in the almost oriental seclusion to which Athenian women were subjected . The same hesitancy is shown in both poems to mount and ride a horse ...
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