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It is in regard to the numbers of the Persians that Xerxes brought into Greece that he is most at fault . ... The Persian was a vast Empire ; it contained possibly fifty millions of subjects ; requisitions for the expedition had been ...
It is in regard to the numbers of the Persians that Xerxes brought into Greece that he is most at fault . ... The Persian was a vast Empire ; it contained possibly fifty millions of subjects ; requisitions for the expedition had been ...
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The scene is a banquet of the Persians and Thebans the night before the battle of Plataea . Now after dinner while they drank one with another , the Persian that sat with him asked Thersandrus in the Greek tongue of what country he was ...
The scene is a banquet of the Persians and Thebans the night before the battle of Plataea . Now after dinner while they drank one with another , the Persian that sat with him asked Thersandrus in the Greek tongue of what country he was ...
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More specifically he misconceives the relative importance of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars . For us the Persian Wars freed Greece from barbarism . For him the battle of Marathon was little more than a date .
More specifically he misconceives the relative importance of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars . For us the Persian Wars freed Greece from barbarism . For him the battle of Marathon was little more than a date .
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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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