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removed from contact with the intellectual life of Athens for twenty years . His style is not what it would have been had he remained in Athens . Thucydides gives prominence to the intelligence , the reasoning power , the judgment .
removed from contact with the intellectual life of Athens for twenty years . His style is not what it would have been had he remained in Athens . Thucydides gives prominence to the intelligence , the reasoning power , the judgment .
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He probably excepts Athens under Pericles when he asserts that the government in Athens in 411 , after the deposition of the four hundred during its early days , was the best which the Athenians ever enjoyed within his ...
He probably excepts Athens under Pericles when he asserts that the government in Athens in 411 , after the deposition of the four hundred during its early days , was the best which the Athenians ever enjoyed within his ...
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No better description of what a Free State should be has ever been given than the pregnant words spoken by 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 ...
No better description of what a Free State should be has ever been given than the pregnant words spoken by 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 ...
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Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND THE MODERN WORLD | 125 |
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