ThucydidesWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1878 - 188 páginas |
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admirals Alcibiades allies Amphipolis Archidamus Argos army Assembly Athenians Athens attack Attica battle blockade Boeotia Brasidas carried character citizens Cleon coast command confederate Corcyra Corcyræans Corinth Corinthians countrymen dæmon danger death defend Demosthenes Dorian Eion enemy enemy's envoys escape expedition fact favour fear fleet force friends galleys garrison give Greece Greeks Gylippus harbour Helots honour hope hundred interests invaders Ionian island Lacedæ Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians Lamachus land Melians Mitylenè Mityleneans modern native Naupactus naval negotiations neighbours never Nicias once orator party peace Peloponnese Peloponnesians Pericles Persian Phormio Platæans Platea popular position prisoners Pylos quarters reinforcements remarkable revolt sail says the historian says Thucydides seems sent ships Sicily side siege slaves Sparta speaker speech Sphakteria spirit strong struggle suffering Syracusans Syracuse Thebans thought Thrace Thucy Thucydides tion took town troops victory walls
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Página 51 - I do not mean that in which their bodies lie, but that in which their renown lives after them, to be remembered forever on every occasion of speech or action which calls it to mind. For the whole earth is the grave and monument of heroes; it is not the mere graving upon marble in their native land which sets forth their deeds ; but even in lands where they were strangers, there lives an unwritten record in every heart, felt though never embodied.
Página 2 - Thus the largest portion of that history which we commonly call ancient is practically modern, as it describes society in a stage analogous to that in which it now is ; while, on the other hand, much of what is called modern history is practically ancient, as it relates to a state of things which has passed away.
Página 1 - We shall see that there is in fact an ancient and a modern period in the history of every people ; the ancient differing, and the modern in many essential points agreeing with that in which we now live. Thus the largest portion of that history which we commonly call ancient is practically modern, as it describes society in a...