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... Pericles thought , and I think Thucydides agreed with him , that the war would last but a few years , and would result in victory for Athens . Pericles's position would have been justified but for the Plague , which could not have been ...
... Pericles thought , and I think Thucydides agreed with him , that the war would last but a few years , and would result in victory for Athens . Pericles's position would have been justified but for the Plague , which could not have been ...
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... Pericles . It was delivered ostensibly over those who had fallen in the first year of the war . It was composed after the close of the war and is really a eulogy on fallen Athens . Norwood has pronounced it " perhaps the central passage ...
... Pericles . It was delivered ostensibly over those who had fallen in the first year of the war . It was composed after the close of the war and is really a eulogy on fallen Athens . Norwood has pronounced it " perhaps the central passage ...
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... Pericles over the ashes of those who had fallen in defence of Athens in 432 B.C. That great statesman had put the crowning touch to the traditions of free- dom by which the Athenians governed their city and , but for the plague , he ...
... Pericles over the ashes of those who had fallen in defence of Athens in 432 B.C. That great statesman had put the crowning touch to the traditions of free- dom by which the Athenians governed their city and , but for the plague , he ...
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