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... describes a Greece rent with civil strife , each side courting the barbarian against whom they had formerly been allied ; of disillusion- ment , of a discredited democracy , of Sparta at the head of Greece . Herodotus wrote of events ...
... describes a Greece rent with civil strife , each side courting the barbarian against whom they had formerly been allied ; of disillusion- ment , of a discredited democracy , of Sparta at the head of Greece . Herodotus wrote of events ...
Page 52
... describes Pericles as a high- class demagogue , and likens his position in the state to that of a confectioner in a group of children . But in general Thucydides seeks complete freedom from partisanship and has usually been regarded as ...
... describes Pericles as a high- class demagogue , and likens his position in the state to that of a confectioner in a group of children . But in general Thucydides seeks complete freedom from partisanship and has usually been regarded as ...
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... describe the fate that has already befallen the giant enemies of Jove in the afterworld - not an empty threat of the ... describing a warrior's scruples against offer- ing worship to the gods when he has only newly re- turned from battle ...
... describe the fate that has already befallen the giant enemies of Jove in the afterworld - not an empty threat of the ... describing a warrior's scruples against offer- ing worship to the gods when he has only newly re- turned from battle ...
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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