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... example of spuri- ous greatness to which history knows no parallel . Xenophon has been canonized along with Herodotus and Thucydides , but he has an eminence to which his literary qualities do not entitle him . Thucydides was not ...
... example of spuri- ous greatness to which history knows no parallel . Xenophon has been canonized along with Herodotus and Thucydides , but he has an eminence to which his literary qualities do not entitle him . Thucydides was not ...
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... example of its working is seen in the Peloponnesian War . 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 ...
... example of its working is seen in the Peloponnesian War . 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 ...
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... example . ” Lessing in his Laocoön argues that while it is a breach of decorum to fix the fleeting movements of anguish in marble , poetry , whose words move in time , may fitly express them . Other critics are in- terested in the ...
... example . ” Lessing in his Laocoön argues that while it is a breach of decorum to fix the fleeting movements of anguish in marble , poetry , whose words move in time , may fitly express them . Other critics are in- terested in the ...
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