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Objection has been made to the episodes and digressions which constitute about half of the History . Herodotus himself tells us that from the beginning his work sought additions . For some of the episodical matter a modern writer would ...
Objection has been made to the episodes and digressions which constitute about half of the History . Herodotus himself tells us that from the beginning his work sought additions . For some of the episodical matter a modern writer would ...
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So Plato had gifts for and an inclination toward statesmanship , but renounced politics to become the most fascinating philosophical writer the world has seen . Thucydides formed his purpose to write the history of the Peloponnesian War ...
So Plato had gifts for and an inclination toward statesmanship , but renounced politics to become the most fascinating philosophical writer the world has seen . Thucydides formed his purpose to write the history of the Peloponnesian War ...
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As an eminent writer says : “ Thucydides may have written at best good Thracian ; but the world still prefers Thucydides's Thracian to Rutherford's Thucydidean . ” The attempt , in the absence of any manuscript of commanding authority ...
As an eminent writer says : “ Thucydides may have written at best good Thracian ; but the world still prefers Thucydides's Thracian to Rutherford's Thucydidean . ” The attempt , in the absence of any manuscript of commanding authority ...
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Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND THE MODERN WORLD | 125 |
Copyright | |
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