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Page 13
... writer would avail himself of foot- notes , addenda , excursuses . These the ancient writer did not have . Most of the episodes and digressions are accounted for by the fact that our author included in his History the whole life of the ...
... writer would avail himself of foot- notes , addenda , excursuses . These the ancient writer did not have . Most of the episodes and digressions are accounted for by the fact that our author included in his History the whole life of the ...
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... writer the world has seen . Thucydides formed his purpose to write the history of the Pelo- ponnesian War at its beginning in 431. In 424 he was one of the Athenian generals or admirals , and , be- cause of failure to rescue Amphipolis ...
... writer the world has seen . Thucydides formed his purpose to write the history of the Pelo- ponnesian War at its beginning in 431. In 424 he was one of the Athenian generals or admirals , and , be- cause of failure to rescue Amphipolis ...
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... writer says : " Thucydides may have written at best good Thracian ; but the world still prefers Thucyd- ides's Thracian to Rutherford's Thucydidean . " The attempt , in the absence of any manuscript of com- manding authority , was bound ...
... writer says : " Thucydides may have written at best good Thracian ; but the world still prefers Thucyd- ides's Thracian to Rutherford's Thucydidean . " The attempt , in the absence of any manuscript of com- manding authority , was bound ...
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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