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... appear greater than either seems inclined to admit . If Thucydides had been questioned as to his debt to Herodotus , he might have said that he owed him much , for he had learned from him how not to write history . Of the men who ...
... appear greater than either seems inclined to admit . If Thucydides had been questioned as to his debt to Herodotus , he might have said that he owed him much , for he had learned from him how not to write history . Of the men who ...
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... what he thought was appropriate to the occasion . How is this practice of making people say what they might have said compatible with the repu- tation for veracity ? The situation will appear clearer if THUCYDIDES 47.
... what he thought was appropriate to the occasion . How is this practice of making people say what they might have said compatible with the repu- tation for veracity ? The situation will appear clearer if THUCYDIDES 47.
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... appear , higher critics have assumed that we owe Homer to Athens . Women have in both poems a position of public influence and a measure of social liberty unknown in historical Greece ; such conceptions as Penelope , Andromache , or ...
... appear , higher critics have assumed that we owe Homer to Athens . Women have in both poems a position of public influence and a measure of social liberty unknown in historical Greece ; such conceptions as Penelope , Andromache , or ...
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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