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... Sparta at the head of Greece . Herodotus wrote of events slowly fading from the memory of men ; Thucydides was contemporaneous with the events he records . The aim of the one was instruction and entertainment , of the other political ...
... Sparta at the head of Greece . Herodotus wrote of events slowly fading from the memory of men ; Thucydides was contemporaneous with the events he records . The aim of the one was instruction and entertainment , of the other political ...
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... Sparta , and his doing to Athens all the evil he would have inflicted upon Sparta . Alcibiades was the most brilliant of the three generals . Lamachus was one of the others , an able general , and if his plan had been adopted Syracuse ...
... Sparta , and his doing to Athens all the evil he would have inflicted upon Sparta . Alcibiades was the most brilliant of the three generals . Lamachus was one of the others , an able general , and if his plan had been adopted Syracuse ...
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... Sparta of the leadership of 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 ...
... Sparta of the leadership of 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 ...
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