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... speeches . This includes set speeches , oracles , dia- logues , and anecdotes in direct discourse . The speeches are practically all of them unauthentic and fictitious . Yet it is amazing how nearly Herodotus comes to what we should ...
... speeches . This includes set speeches , oracles , dia- logues , and anecdotes in direct discourse . The speeches are practically all of them unauthentic and fictitious . Yet it is amazing how nearly Herodotus comes to what we should ...
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... speeches , a practice which for two centuries has been abandoned by historians and which is now relegated to the historical novelist . About one fifth of the text is taken up with speeches . There are forty- one of them , not including ...
... speeches , a practice which for two centuries has been abandoned by historians and which is now relegated to the historical novelist . About one fifth of the text is taken up with speeches . There are forty- one of them , not including ...
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... speeches he has lavished all the resources of his literary art . They become in his hands an artistic in- strument of mighty power . Even for a modern reader the speeches serve to enliven the narrative . It is in them that we find the ...
... speeches he has lavished all the resources of his literary art . They become in his hands an artistic in- strument of mighty power . Even for a modern reader the speeches serve to enliven the narrative . It is in them that we find the ...
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